A reality check on Covid and government tyranny

Libertarian scaremongering has grossly misrepresented the US government's actual response to Covid.

“I’m not afraid of the infection, I’m fighting the coronavirus!” Government poster in Orenburg, Russia.

More than 879,000 people in the United States have died of Covid-19 since the global pandemic began in early 2020.¹ About a third of all Americans report that they personally knew at least one of these victims; one in five say that they have lost a close friend, and one in eight say that they have lost family.² On top of that, more than 287,000 people in the United States have been hospitalized.³