What's really cool is seeing the giant drop-off in flu rates during the lockdowns. Flu infections fell 64% and at least one strain went extinct. I'd link to the NIH publication but I'm not sure it'll stay up, lol. [1]

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/a-sharp-drop-in-flu-cases-duri...

There is an entire litany of complaints that I've seen. It typically centers around "we shouldn't have funded this virology research in the first place" and "the government should have been totally transparent about every single piece of knowledge it had, and clearer about things that were ambiguous" and "it was a mistake to lie about masks not working to save masks for health workers" and freedom of choice around vaccination.

Doing public health at scale is incredibly hard. Doing so in a politicized environment with active disinformation is even harder. I'm not going to fault the government response. By and large it did what I expected it to do. Ideally, there would be an honest postmortem and we'd improve our techniques for the future, but I worry that won't every happen again.