There actually were problems with the Covid response.

https://archive.is/O4JtV#selection-4655.0-4659.129

Public health officials were wrong or lied about some elements of Covid and the Covid response in order to avoid freaking out the public. Unfortunately this fueled crazy partisan conspiracies. Because the issue is so politically polarized, nobody can have an honest conversation about the failures of the pandemic response.

Also, Astra Zeneca vaccine has been pulled from Europe because of health risks. https://apnews.com/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-covid-eu-a3c108dd0ca305cf1b6da764e9a37abc

But there's no nuance. This doesn't mean every vaccine is dangerous.

Lockdowns were harmful in many ways. But I and many others treated as scienfic fact a lot of stuff that was conjecture, sometimes out of fear as being seen as a MAGA anti-vaccine kook.

"The questions around masks led me to the six-foot rule and the debate over how Covid was spread. “FACT CHECK: Covid-19 is NOT airborne,” the World Health Organization declared on social media — even though SARS, a virus very much like Covid, had long since been understood to be airborne. Frustrated scientists pleaded with the C.D.C. and the W.H.O. to take into account the new evidence. By the way, as of this writing, that “FACT CHECK” post is still up.
I later implored the authorities to open parks (that was April 2020) as well as to recognize airborne transmission and the protective effect of ventilation and to stop shaming people for going to the beach (both July 2020). I even joined some of those scientists to write articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
But as I reported on these topics, one theme kept coming up: High-level officials were afraid to tell the truth — or just to admit that they didn’t have all the answers — lest they spook the public."

I realize that we still can't even talk about this rationally, and I'm not trying to excuse the crazies either.