Ladies and gentlemen, the single best evidence the United States' Covid response was a complete failure is that Excess Mortality rates persist above baseline more than three years into a pandemic that killed less than 0.1% of the global population.
This should not be happening.
The lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccines, vaccine mandates β all of it β despite all of the economic damage and social upheaval has not significantly reduced the nation's overall death rate.
The Experts were wrong. End of story.