Part of an article form TPG FactCheck helps to understand why some of the public distrust governments solutions to covid. No recognition of any errors or misjudgements.
"The mainstream treatments for COVID have largely been ineffective and wrong, such as the 2020 media hype about ventilators. Ventilators were later found to cause even worse outcomes for COVID patients, [
6][
7] but the media held no one accountable for the mistakes and simply swept the issue under the rug. The media then made masking [
8] and state shutdowns [
9] the preferred elite option for dealing with the pandemic, even though those strategies also were colossal failures.
They were ineffective measures that came with an enormous economic cost that may take a generation to recover from. [
10] "