Imagine the uproar if someone said we needed blanket amnesty for slavery, Jim Crow, and massacres of Native Americans. The perpetrators and victims of those crimes are almost all long dead, but people still point out the lingering effects of those past injustices.
The COVID policies were smaller in scale, wider in application, and shorter in duration, but they are in some cases still ongoing. The perpetrators and their victims are almost all still alive. The guilty want a free pass for their well-meaning mistakes because responsibility is too heavy a burden?