Oh for God’s sake, grow up. Lockdown was awful and had awful down sides, and we had the politicians we elected who were exactly the clowns we all knew they were, and utterly unsuited to the task.
But we didn’t know we would find a vaccine, or that it would be as effective - we were realistically hoping for 50% effectiveness, and on the first strain it was 94% effective, but as it was a coronavirus it did what they all do and evolved.
Everything we are suffering from - the hit to the economy, the trauma of loss and illness-based bodily damage / after-effects - it was all caused by the disaster which is a pandemic. It’s like arguing that we won’t put up with our house falling down next time there is an earthquake.
Ask anyone who worked in a hospital during Covid if we could skip masks and lockdown next time. We can’t. The other thing we can’t avoid - making mistakes. Hindsight is 20:20 but these are insanely difficult choices.
For years we knew we were overdue a global pandemic - the expectation was that they were a one-in-a-hundred-year event but so many factors change - global travel and deforestation on one hand, the facts of novel illnesses on the other - incubation periods, how it spreads. We aren’t in control of everything.