What you said was contradictory.
Managing the effects is what we are doing when we "flatten the curve", but that prevents herd immunity, makes the epidemic never ending, and THAT is what CAUSES the variants.
Ending the epidemic as quickly as possible is the MOST important thing we can do, and that would have been best accomplished last March, by deliberate infection, (variolation), of volunteers under 40.
That is because those under 40 have 400 times less death risk than those over 70.
We do not want to manage effects, but to stop deaths by ending it as quickly as possible.
And achieving herd immunity through accelerated infection is the best was to do that.
Look at the deliberate infection, (variolation), Gen. Washington used in 1777.
www.loc.gov
Remember this was NOT a vaccination, since Jenner did not produce the first vaccine until 20 years later.
This was deliberate infection.