That is what they did. And over 1 million Americans died as a result. 2 weeks after the number of new cases dipped slightly, and mere days after it was announced that old people and blacks were the ones who were dying, Trump demanded the states reopen NOW, and mostly they did. And new cases took off like a rocket and never looked back.
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70,000 Americans died last year from covid. You have the highest rate of disease and death in the First World. When the swine flu pandemic hit the USA in 2008/2009, the USA had 1% of the world's deaths from the swine flu. The USA has had 17% of the world's deaths from covid, with 3% of the world's population.
Over 1/3 of you have had covid. Over 100 million cases. If "herd immunity" was as effective as you claimed, Americans should have stopped dying at the end of 2022, and they didn't. Added to which, counties and states with mask and vaccine mandates, had lower rates of death.