I don't think "we" have any desire so clearly defined and articulated as that. This virus so so extremely contagious and deadly that there isn't a manageable ra

I don't think "we" have any desire so clearly defined and articulated as that. This virus so so extremely contagious and deadly that there isn't a manageable rate that is going to get us to a high fraction of immunity within the next two or three years. And the measures apparently required to keep it from growing explosively are pretty extreme. I think that China actually does intend to eradicate the virus domestically, and, tbh, short of a vaccine I'm not sure there's any other politically acceptable exit from this situation. Fwiw I don't think allowing millions of deaths is politically tenable, and I don't think that "lock down the only the vulnerable" is going to work. (I wish I could believe that contact tracing and partial lockdown were sufficient but even Singapore, which by all reports was doing these things, is now SIP with 1/4 as many cases per capita as the US. I think our best case if we can't eradicate is going to look a bit like SK, where schools are shut down and life is very different from what we would typically expect. But that is a best case scenario assuming competent and diligent institutions, which I'm not sure we have.)