Places like Australia and New Zealand have shown that coming down hard and early pays dividends in the end.
We knew this last year given the history of the Spanish Flu and comparisons between cities that did and didn't do this. Ones who didn't were also suffering poorer economic outcomes 5 years after the pandemic had passed.
The Spanish Flu's 3rd wave was also worse than the two previous waves combined.
We don't seem to have the will.
Only 16% of us don't seem to but for some stupid reason public officials are listening to the ridiculously oversized voice they seem to wield. WTF is up with that?