It seems to me that we now face two options: we can prolong the pandemic by continuing to enforce basic safety measures like lockdowns and mask mandates, in ord

It seems to me that we now face two options: we can prolong the pandemic by continuing to enforce basic safety measures like lockdowns and mask mandates, in order to reduce the load on the healthcare system, or we can just say fuck it and try to accelerate endemicity by trying to give everyone Omicron... I know that "prolonging the pandemic" sounds bad and like the opposite of what we should be striving for, but a controlled transition to endemicity may lead to a lot less of the kind of economic and social disruption that we're seeing right now with empty shelves, canceled flights, and classrooms without teachers. In other words, we can have a shorter, more miserable end to the pandemic, or we can have a longer one with less chaos. Am I missing something here?