The policy of universities and the federal government is to wait. What for? Undefined. Supposedly, they were going to lift covid restrictions, but then Omicron

The policy of universities and the federal government is to wait. What for? Undefined. Supposedly, they were going to lift covid restrictions, but then Omicron came. However we know that omicron is very mild and not any more a significant threat than driving a car or living in the U.S. in general. Yet here we are. The overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. have already had covid, or have been vaccinated, or both. The socioeconomic affects of current restrictions are like a smog of cigarette smoke across the country. It won't kill you as fast as the very few people covid now will, but it will kill you later. We aren't looking at the carcinogenic effects of policies. If we were we would see a skyrocket in homelessness, unemployment, evaporation of jobs, and a market that overall will not take the same risks knowing the government(s) can shut their operations down at any moment. The policy makers for covid restrictions act like this is all a bandaid that will fall off eventually, but as far as I have seen they lied and the bandaid is actually a whole roll of duct tape.