Just My Opinion:
In previous calamities Lee, such as Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, and 911, while the American people were confused, angry, and perhaps frightened, in real time, they were never significantly divided. In those instances, there was never a real question that America was wronged by an easily identified criminality, and the nation faithfully rallied around the national leadership until the threat(s) were contained.
In contrast, the Covid pandemic lacks such clearly acknowledged criminality. While strong, well-informed scientific suspicions have pointed, and continue to point, to the possibility that Covid was resultant of a bio-weapon, perhaps deliberately unleashed upon the world by a tyrannical Marxist power, our own government vehement denied such a possibility, and did so with arrogant utterances overly protective of a less-than-transparent hostile regime, which coincidentally seemed to singularly benefit from the plague.
It is also troubling that from the ruling American government's point of view, the Covid pandemic appears to be a war without defined scope. To the existent powers, Covid it would seem, appears to be an ongoing, never ending war which faithfully requires the attendance of heavy-handed government control, relies on select, untested weaponry to the exclusion of more tested, reliable guns, and lacks a clear definition of termination.
More concerning, is it a mere coincidence that in America, the Covid danger exists concurrently with what appears to be the unmistakable stench of Marxist revolution in the air; a national odor which suspiciously emanates the philosophies of the exact same tyrannical power from which the health danger emerged, and was then circulated throughout the world?
Do not the confiscations of personal freedoms in general, free speech in particular, whether by corporatists indirectly, or by persuasive government suggestions lend support to the revolution theory?
Is it not obvious that those Americans who seek to ask questions, or who would otherwise challenge the government's Covid narrative and mandates, are met with the threats of censorship, public humiliation, economic and vocational sanction, and perhaps criminal prosecution; all the earmarks of Marxist/Socialist dictatorship?
While Bret Baier's report lent some clarity to some questions, it was very troubling to actually hear confirmation of the long-suspected.
In the previous calamities specified above, while hard questions were asked, and somewhat dutifully evaded, those asking the questions, or standing defiantly against the answers, were never significantly censored with threats of public humiliation, economic and vocational sanction, and perhaps criminal prosecution.
It should be noted that while the government in past circumstances, historically provided explanations that were significantly evasive, closure was seemingly reached in such a way as to substantially honor national unity, and to permit the nation to move on to meet the challenges of the future.
Methinks that is not going to happen with the events of 2020-2022...