The United States along with most other Western nations, had a very severe lockdown and restrictions imposed upon their population, which did not discriminate in regards to age, when it came to COVID-19. In other words, the governance of the United States, sold the story to the people, that COVID-19 was a deadly disease, that was no respecter of persons and their age, and therefore all then were subject to the same draconian laws concerning contact with others, movement, and other restrictions. So too, the United States applied a lot of pressure on people to get vaccinated, of which, that vaccination, did not in and of itself, actually serve as an ironclad guarantee that a person so vaccinated, would not ever contact and get COVID-19 again.
While it could be said that the United States and other Western nations, made serious mistakes regarding how to best deal with this “pandemic”, it has to be noted that history clearly tells us, that the United States fundamentally got it wrong. The biggest mistake that the United States made was to not comprehend or to understand the nature of the disease, by treating it, as if COVID-19 had the same morbidity and mortality rate, no matter the age or physical condition of the person. What we find as shown on statista.com, is that out of the 1,134,641 USA COVID-19 deaths, 858,323 of those deaths were of people aged 65 and older, and only 8,607 were aged 29 and younger. This is a staggering difference in the death rate of these respective population groups and is indicative that COVID-19 was a lethal disease to the aged and those with compromised immune systems or other bad health issues, as compared to those that were young, and pretty much immune to COVID-19.
Because the United States failed to recognize that COVID-19 was discriminatory, it shut down public schools, businesses, and social lives for those that were best suited for those very things, which will have a lifetime effect upon those students and citizens who lost the opportunity to educate themselves and to improve their status in life. Further to the point, for all those that do not believe in the foregoing analysis, when we take a look at Nigeria, which is a country that has a population about 2/3rd of the United States and is considered by all accounts to be far poorer than the United States, with a healthcare system which doesn’t hold a candle to the United States, we find that in total, as reported by coronavirus.jhu.edu only 3,155 of Nigerians died of COVID-19. This staggering difference in death rates seems unfathomable, unless, we take into account that in America, the population percentage of those that are 65 and older is 17.6%; whereas in Nigeria that percentage is around 3%. Further to the point, Nigeria has a considerably higher percentage of people that are aged 29 and younger than the USA, so that, rather than COVID-19 devastating Nigeria, as well as other African nations, it did not, despite Nigeria’s lack of vaccinations and infrastructure to supposedly best deal with COVID-19.
Indeed, at this point, the greatest good that the United States can do for its people is to admit its horrendous error, and thereby make good for those that they hurt the most, which are all those that suffered economic and educational loss, by putting forth a comprehensive program to facilitate such.