Cue up the infamous video of a maskless Fauci enjoying ballgame

Nothing wrong with what he did. He and his friend were off by themselves and it's hard to catch Covid outside in the sunlight.

Then there was pulling kids out of school with zero regard for other childhood development consequences,

"Zero regard" is not true. Lots of countries did this with kids, they all assessed it. Kids were transmitters. Other countries faced the same problems and all made mistakes - no matter which way they went.

No, the abuses were many, and went way beyond masks and vaccines, and you let them off too easily

Hogwash. I was in the Philippines, a couple came through and one died in Manila. I spent two months at home at the direction of the Gov. Then people wore masks badly except for my wife - and me because she got on me if I goofed. They were pulling motorcycles and trucks over and washing their tires. "Why?" we asked, scratching our heads. Turned out in the past there was a farm animal virus that might be transmitted from farm muck from one farm to another on tires - so they revived it. Everybody wore masks, even outside in the sun. I had to outside because of my wife.

I had one expat whose kid came over to our island for school threatening to come over and kill me after I explained to him that we were indefinitely closed down. It definitely put some kids behind because the internet isn't good enough for school. People were out of work and had to rely on family. They gave out sacks of rice to everyone and my wife gave ours to some poor people. It hurt but most Filipinos cooperated. American expats were famous for being jerks and not cooperating.