But ideally wouldn't we have wanted to crush it hard - get prepared with testing, isolation ability, contact tracing so that when we lift and cases rise we can

But ideally wouldn't we have wanted to crush it hard - get prepared with testing, isolation ability, contact tracing so that when we lift and cases rise we can smother them before they get too large? It seems fairly successful so far in China/Korea/Australia etc. Maybe it was never possible with a fractured America filled with selfish idiots. I've completely lost hope in my country for the first time in my life I don't have confidence we can our system can fix itself