> The goal of the government is not to minimize the number of deaths at any cost.

Maybe not at any cost, but yeah I think there should be a pretty strong presumption towards improving people's welfare and not killing them.

There's a difference between "not killing them" and "protecting them".

Especially during this pandemic when so much low-hanging fruit has been intentionally left on the table--for instance, if "protecting people" was ever a goal, why has there been literally zero focus on vitamin D deficiency in the general population? This is simple, cheap, efficient, and a potent inhibitor of sars-cov-2, and yet the ruling class has seen to it that it has never been publicly pushed at all.

All of the ruling class's ideas happen to align with profit for pharmaceutical companies and greatly increased social control. Is that a coincidence?

I've looked at the evidence regarding vitamin D, it is not nearly as clear cut as you suggest.

To me, it's pretty clear that the driving force for these changes has been 700k people dying, not pharma profit.

I'm not going to continue replying, just an FYI.