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Once the virus went worldwide there was no stopping it.

The entire world would never be on the same page enough to snuff out the virus.

If the U.S. had gone full isolation mode with a 100% lockdown and achieved 100% vaccination rate before opening up we still would have been ravaged by delta/omicron/future variants that started outside of the U.S. The vaccine doesnt offer the kind of immunity we had hoped it would to eliminate transmissibility or the risk of infection. No country, no matter how strict their lockdown or how high their vaccination rates where, was able to beat this thing for this reason. Were all still at its mercy.

Now where strict lockdowns and vaccinations did achieve great success is by keeping the cases and total number of deaths low. Kudos to the countries that had low impact from Covid for following these.

But unless you have control over the entire world I dont see how you beat a virus this transmissible without a one time miracle cure vaccine. We had a very short window as a world to contain this thing and we where too late, the virus becoming endemic has been in the cards for a long time now.