Anecdotes are useless. And my experience has been the opposite of yours. Nil deaths, one infection, same mental health for the cares-about-COVID community. The community that doesn’t has had 3 deaths, dozens of infections, and worsened mental health from the deaths of loved ones.

So why am I supposed to give more of a shit about your anecdote than my experience again?

>It's over. COVID is over. It's time to stop closing everything.

Uh we know. We’re talking about what happened in the past. Everyone has been using past tense verbs.