But you have to make decisions in a pandemic before you have that answer.

No you don't. All you needed to do was communicate the science clearly and let people decide how to deal with their own health.

But nooooo, you all wanted to be heros, and save us all from the virus who's creation you funded.

So you made a plan for everyone and used the government's monopoly on force to make them follow you. You stripped their rights because your plan was soooo good that it was worth a bit of tyranny to make sure everyone followed it. You bet our lives, our children, and possibly our very civilization on a half-baked plan that sounds as if it were cooked up by a frat of drunken pre-med students.

May justice find you.