I agree that the COVID numbers were partially unintentional. Sure, all the ”wearing a mask infringes on muh freedum” rhetoric and dipshits like DeSantis not shutting things down to own the libs didn't help, but all of that would've probably happened anyway.

”COVID is over” also gets a pass from liberals just because Biden did it. If Trump had said that and had stopped tracking the numbers, we'd never hear the end of it.