Dakota versus Dakota. Do lockdowns change the future? Masks?

A medical moment: Covid-19, coronavirus update, discussion, review.
Topics covered:
CASES, cases, cases! We have more cases because we do more testing. Hospitalizations and fatalities are better measures of a disease's severity.
The locked liquor cabinet. When we're not supposed to look at or think about certain aspects of coronavirus, the natural impulse is to query, "why?"
Why were off-label uses of known, reasonably safe medications discouraged for coronavirus?
Vaccine talk: How do they work? Who should get them first? Are there different types of vaccines? When did China have and deploy one? Which vaccine is the best? What percentage of the population vaccinated or immune constitutes adequate barrier in preventing pandemic spread?
The "better helmet"/ riskier behavior paradox. Does this apply to masks?
North versus South! Battleground Dakotas: North Dakota did lockdowns and mask-mandates yet perfomed no better than South Dakota which did not.
Is there a "super mutant" coronavirus? (United Kingdom)?
Is vitamin D an actual preventive for coronavirus severity?
Do our leaders obey their own mask, lockdown, distancing statutes? The latest, Dr. Birx. Separately, what can the NBA players' attitude toward the virus tell us? Have any of them gotten actually ill?
What do life insurance sales tell us about actuarial risk to coronavirus?
With no immunity either, which would you rather not see: Spanish flu or coronavirus? The case is made.