Just as a thought experiment, what would you have done if a pandemic of a highly contagious, extremely severe new illness with uncertain symptoms from which ove

Just as a thought experiment, what would you have done if a pandemic of a highly contagious, extremely severe new illness with uncertain symptoms from which over a third of of people don't seem to recover as was the case with the early variants, and nobody seemed to care? Because that's where we were at for several months even with lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mandatory masking.