hahah oh man. The pandemic 'wasn't that bad' because of the following:
-modern knowledge of virology (knowing how it could spread and how to mitigate it)
-rapid knowledge-sharing among scientists and medical experts
-worldwide lockdowns
-2020-level healthcare in hospitals
-vaccines, and how they were deployed (targeting hot spots)
-mask mandates
-restrictions on mobility after lockdowns have ended
-other stuff that I can't think of right now
If you don't see that these things, if they all worked properly would in the end look like they didn't even need to happen at all, then you're as dumb as you sound when harping on about "death rate." As if death is the only problem here...
Nobody said there'd be bodies in the streets either. Well I'm sure some guy said it somewhere, but it certainly wasn't even close to the consensus opinion when this all first started. Shit I heard was "if a virus has a 2% fatality rate, then that will translate in to everyone having someone they know die from the disease."