You guys are reading my comment wrong (no surprise there). It's simply putting context in the 1 million dead. If at the beginning everyone thought over 3 million would die, and we only end up with a million, is that good or bad thing? Is it a glass half full or half empty? Of course the vaccine and therapeutics have been a monumental success. So one could argue how we handled this pandemic, from a lives lost perspective, has been a success.
Of course, what really matters is excess deaths. And we look at that number on per capita basis, it is once again the global poor who have truly been shit on during this pandemic:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...deaths-tracker