You let the pandemic burn out and then vaccinate so it doesn't return.
So lets say there were no restrictions and take for example the US would have by now well over a million, perhaps a million and half dead by now with the possibility of new variants beginning to appear which there may not be in the future no vaccine possible to combat it ?
Oh shit some people are stupid.
I think the medical community are on the right track in getting this virus under control and even they realize this virus will not be completely eliminated.
Humanity has been experiencing virus plagues since biblical times and probably before and to certain extent more severe such as the Black plague (1300's), try telling that to poorly educated people like Kososen .