After your edit - they could try anything. A lockdown, with economic support. The media could get out of its own ass and actually provide non-doom viewpoints. Look at possible solutions, weigh options, provide good coverage. They could keep providing tests and shots for free.

They could enact universal healthcare.

They could TRY to do a lot of things. Living in "Realist Stasis" and accepting inevitability helps nobody.

I'm not saying anything will happen, but literally waiting for everyone to get covid is as you say doomposting and not really helpful