The powers that be made the decision quite some time ago to let the virus rip through society. In Australia they removed mask mandates just as the Omicron variant was gathering momentum. No government is that incompetent. It's all deliberate. Deaths and the long term illness of thousands mean nothing to them if corporate profit is at risk. Sadly too many people just want to bury their heads in the sand, which is exactly how we ended up in this nightmare scenario.