100 million people is 1/3 of America. How many already had it? How many were vaccinated? How many died? How many people are dying per infection? We get precious little actual information. The first six months of Covid was used to convince everyone that it was an existential threat. The next two years they have hyped case rate statistics but they don’t have a lot of deaths. They have positive test results and hospitalizations and people missing work but where are the hearses? Yet we have to act as if it will suddenly mutate into a deadly disease.
I think a lot of what drives Covid today is that it has become a business. Masks, test kits, vaccines, hand sanitizer, wipes, temperature readers. Where I work they have these multi thousand dollar temperature measuring cameras that they used for several months but now sit in a room by the front door because they are too complicated to operate. It’s a ten foot metal truss tower with a large camera a network switch and a big video monitor that scans a crowd of people for any body temperature over 99 and puts a yellow or red box on the screen around them as they walk by. They used them for about 3 months in 2021.