Unfortunately, there is a lot of intentional and unintentional misinformation going around. Mask was not meant to "eradicate" anything, that was not the intent

Unfortunately, there is a lot of intentional and unintentional misinformation going around. Mask was not meant to "eradicate" anything, that was not the intent. The same thing with lockdowns, it was not meant to eradicate anything. The original intent back in the very early stage of the pandemic is to slow down the pace of hospitalizations (or as they market it, flatting the curve); the best way to do that is to slow down the number of people getting sick. What were the best solutions? 1. Be vigilant with cleaning up and avoiding contact with sick folks (self) 2. Stay home if you're sick, wear masks and so on. (self) 3. Lock down when it was getting out of control. (community) Also, this can have an impact on reducing the variants by having less hosts to infect and to mutate but this failed, so we're likely to stick with COVID for a very long time like the cold and flu. People should still be masking up if they're sick and can't stay home.