During COVID, from the time the oil patch crashed, I made over 4000 food deliveries. We were required to wear a mask by the company I worked for. We made "contactless" deliveries, where we wore masks and gloves and came no closer to the customer than the proscribed six feet, some times because they were afraid, some times because they were sick, sometimes because it was the default setting on the ap, and they didn't Uncheck it.
In a county of roughly 35000 people, the worst odds faced for encountering someone who had tested positive in the lat couple weeks (active case) were about 1 in 200, now down to 1 in a thousand.
Having seen Zelenko's video before it was pulled, I researched other ionophores for Zinc, including Quercetin and Ivermectin, knowing I had access to both of the latter, if only as supplements or veterinary medicine, I haven't been worried. I have no comorbidities, which makes me blessed for my age group.
Through it all, I have recognized the greatest danger to us all has been panic, and the Mass Media have done their best to keep that going, along with the so-called "social" media--the former by pumping and pimping fear, the latter by censoring information and cause for hope. The Medical establishment, through poorly conducted 'hit' studies designed not only to fail, but to NOT test the full regimen, contributed handily by being the oft quoted "experts" who wrote the "studies" that damned effective treatment.
Through this all, as a scientist, I researched the origins of the virus, including the lab in Chapel Hill, and followed the trail to the Wuhan lab and to the streets of Hubei Province and back across the world. I have tried to weigh risks, especially in light of the actions taken by the politicians and the medical establishment. When the overlords of social media weighed in fairly consistently on one side, when they started censoring the discussion and eliminating accounts of those who dissented, favoring only the hideously destructive party line, I was only ensured that my conclusions were correct.
Yes, it is a nasty bug for some, especially if the initial treatment is to wait until the patient is doing poorly, and I have no doubt it has contributed to and even been responsible for the deaths of many worldwide. We will never know how many (just as we will never know how many died of other treatable maladies during the panic), as the numbers, the tests, the fiscal incentives have ever been biased toward inflating the death toll and fomenting panic to gain greater control of the masses and the marketplace, and even to seize control of the federal Government through dishonest and illegal election practices.
It isn't often I bring my view of God into politics, but what has been done in this country in re COVID, has been anything but Godly, instead the panic, the fear, the pain, the separation of dying elders from their loved ones, is all straight from the annals of evil, flimsy gestures which did virtually nothing to help quell the disease, but plenty to increase the misery people went through, and in the case of summarily dismissing effective early onset treatments, imho, vastly increased the number of premature deaths and the tremendous cost thereof.
Only The Almighty truly knows the hearts of those who did that, and only He can deal with them in a fashion appropriate.