Trying to understand what you say here. I think we may be on the same side, or close.

I don't deny suffering, and the increase of it with this new virus variation. I'm just saying that some people turned towards "fast food science" and impromptu saviors, at the expense of other potential approaches, trying to impose this as the only way to solve the natural fear we all have in front of death. This is a limbic brain response to a danger (real or imaginary), it's rooted in fear, and it was hijacked by opportunistic actors with the - cynical, but real -aim of profiting. Increasing surveillance and control (any government's wet dream), or making money (big pharma reason to be).

I don't deny, nor despise, the reaction per se. I just notice it, and observe it is now more of a religion, more of a dogma, than a sensible and empathic approach.

I also happen to believe there must be alternative ways out of it, which can lower the suffering, not increasing it.