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the poor sap behind the podium takes credit or blame

mostly blame

very similar to the head coach & QB

I think the biggest mistake was the lockdowns. In particular, closing schools. That set a lot of kids back in a big and bad way - for no good reason, and certainly not based on science.

“What I learned I think is to protect the elderly and vulnerable as well as possible and then carry on.”

best summary right there.  And, there were some leaders who DID take that approach despite being vilified by MSM. 

I hope we take that approach next time.

“What I learned I think is to protect the elderly and vulnerable as well as possible and then carry on.”

best summary right there.  And, there were some leaders who DID take that approach despite being vilified by MSM. 

Problem is many can't admit when they're elderly. A bridge I'll have to cross in 40-50 yrs

So making demonstrably incorrect statements....meh.
Telling people no to get tested to keep the positive case total artificially low....meh.
Pressuring the CDC to make statements they knew weren't accurate....meh.
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I give up. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/vaccinations-critics-unearth-initial-anti-vaccine-rhetoric-media-lawmakers

i could post 50 examples in 30 minutes.  
you should give up.  

I think the biggest mistake was the lockdowns. In particular, closing schools. That set a lot of kids back in a big and bad way - for no good reason, and certainly not based on science.

“What I learned I think is to protect the elderly and vulnerable as well as possible and then carry on.”

best summary right there.  And, there were some leaders who DID take that approach despite being vilified by MSM. 

I hope we take that approach next time.

We sure as hell better close the schools if a NOVEL pandemic virus is spreading like wildfire that we know nothing about.  The more accurate statement would be that schools were closed too long or that online learning went on too long.  Schools were closed until the science was known, not in spite of it.  
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The next pandemic virus or bacteria will not necessarily act the same as this one did.  It's a miracle/mystery why it didn't knock out little kids as radically as it did the elderly.  To me, that's what made it a test run for something worse, and we failed.
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A lot of this monday-morning QBing is just ignoring the face that this was a novel virus that we knew fuck-all about initially.  These great ideas you're posting now would have been criminally insane in the first 6-8-12 months (before we KNEW things, not maybe thought we knew things).  
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When it comes to new viral entity:
being cautious + wrong > being cavalier + right

https://www.foxnews.com/media/vaccinations-critics-unearth-initial-anti-vaccine-rhetoric-media-lawmakers

i could post 50 examples in 30 minutes. 
you should give up. 

You're chasing your tail.
I honestly don't want to waste the time to explain why your article is a waste of time.
How about some bullet points:
a - the initial vaccines came out very quickly, and so there was skepticism
b - the hesitation was led by Dems, for political reasons (and they were wrong - this is your point, but there's baggage)
c - it made sense to be skeptical of vaccines that came out so quickly, as they were created by a relatively new/different method
d - once the vaccines proved to be mostly effective/safe, those opinions magically stopped coming from Dems and shifted over to mouth-breathing rural Reps, while clutching their guns and wearing their red, white, and blue undies
e - Trump had fuck-all to do with the way the vaccines were produced
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I do give up.  I give up on you ever seeing the world through untinted glasses.