First off, some countries do substantially live with no COVID. Not every country in the world failed to control it like the US, and not every public health system is as incapable of control. On the numbers it does look like failure to stop Covid is inevitable in the US, but countries with more advanced public health systems need not give up and accept that they’ll always have Covid.
In terms of ongoing control measures, food safety, agricultural quarantine, and medical hygiene all
cost huge amounts of money and time. Should we give them up because food poisoning still happens, because farms still get coronavirus and other outbreaks, and because infections still
Happen in hospital? Does that make all investment in controlling those infections a waste? And if not, why is COVID special in being allowed to run uncontrolled?
What countries have "zero covid?" Has it been confirmed by tests? I can see isolated countries being
relatively covid free. But Japan is an island nation and is beset by covid problems, Australia, also an island nation, as I said, goes crazy on lockdowns for cases that could be counted on one hand.
If the U. S. "failed" to control covid, it seems much of the world did as well. And, no, covid is
not being allowed to run uncontrolled, it is simply nearly impossible to really control.
Investments in controlling infections are not a waste, but most infections in hospitals are not the results of pandemics, they happen
because there are sick people in hospitals, which happens because that's where sick people go for medical help.
As for countries that did not "fail to control it like the U. S.," just how did they achieve this miracle? How do these "more advanced public health systems"
plan to totally eradicate covid? ? ? The Spanish Flu bug is still around, and even the Bubonic Plague pathogen is still out there. As I said before,
THERE WILL NEVER BE "ZERO COVID" AGAIN ON PLANET EARTH. Some isolated mysterious countries (like Shangri-La, for example) might escape for awhile so long as they can shut down vectors 100%, but in reality I don't think that will last.