Every pandemic in history meant every person lost half of their loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers in the first two months.
Most of us know someone who knows someone who died, and almost always in a nursing home. Not a pandemic.
The governors who are ordering lockdowns and masks are doing so illegally. Time to turn up the heat. Recall them. Sue the state.
Actually I have not yet met anyone who knows anyone who has died of COVID. I'm not even sure I've met anyone who claims or admits to having contracted the "deadly" virus, and I have been asking everyone I have met since Mar/Apr. I work on the road ~20 weeks per year, so I meet a fair amount of new people in new places regularly. Weird. It's almost as if...