Great points, but on top of that, fecal matter studies from several European countries, including Italy, where it's believed the strain of the US originated, it looks like it was in those countries in the fall of 2019. Several studies are verified and dating the virus' presence to early November. One Italian scientist believes it likely started early fall, but can't prove it as of yet.

In all likelihood, we were in peak covid during January and February. Lockdowns likely made the situations worse, especially for those in nursing homes. As governors like the NY governor actively forced the removal of any covid positive testing nursing home patient from hospital beds back to the nursing homes, where they promptly infected most of the other residents.

Ironic, the Lockdowns have likely served to kill more people and continue to prolong the infections than just doing nothing would have.

But again, i suspect this was never about a virus. At the minimum, it's about control and conformity as well as seeing who doesn't conform. At the worst, well there's a lot of governors, especially Democrat governors who hate those old fox news watching fogeys in the nursing homes.

I usually don't believe such malice intent, but when the NY governor actively tries to scrub links on the web of his order forcing the return of nursing home resident back to their home especially if they test positive, even though several private nursing homes actively begged him to stop. Then in late March, or early April, NY changed how they count nursing home deaths. Prior, if a nursing home resident went to the hospital and died, that's counted as a nursing home death. They did away with that one quickly.