People's perceptions don't really matter. The undeniable truth is that capitalism is what has brought us to a place where life expectancy is 70-80 years, infant mortality has plummeted, food is readily available to most of the world, every item we make is so abundant that we find ourselves throwing away so much that it is a problem, refrigeration and food preservation are simple, farming is highly productive, and medical technology can address most of the things that were killing people until less than a hundred years ago.
Meh. I had COVID 19 and recovered. I have natural immunity as my body knows how to produce antibodies, so I neither need nor want this vaccine, but go ahead and think otherwise.
The captions on the two images are direct quotes from media sources relating to those two specific days and events. How you choose to interpret these is up to you.