You’re going to have to lay down the logic behind this one for me. I am not getting it.
So covid being "over" is really a state of mind/choice of when to accept that it's endemic and drop the hysterics/restrictions.
Omicron should be cheered as an effectively natural vaccine that looks to quickly end the worst of covid, yet media continues to fear monger about case counts, by and large. I am seeing some articles speaking to it as beneficial though.
The fear a lot of people have over covid is totally out of proportion with the actual data, and media by and large continues to stoke these fears.
In the medium term yes; in the short term, with millions of unvaccinated people and a very fast exponential growth, it still has potential to overflow healthcare.
And the point is Omicron is largely benign, which is reflected in data at this point.
There's no need for 95%+ of people who catch it to go to the hospital. Look at the South African data... Hospitalizations are order of magnitude below cases with omicron, vs Delta.
But single variable policy proponents, like you appear to be, don't care about the facts or the science, just number of cases.
Personally I'd rather advocate for policy that looks at the actual data in regards to health outcomes, as well as other variables that take into account second order effects of any policy. That's called following the science.
Covid extremists are the religious ones at this point. I'm glad society is finally rejecting their failed views and authoritarian virtue signaling. Of which has made 0 difference state by state in the US, by and large. Check FL or TX vs CA or NY (e.g. the data, the science).
We're living in a bizarro world where these people think they have the scientific high ground, but are actually following mass group think/bubble mentality and ignoring anything beyond case counts.