They are doing it to themselves. Keep everything under lock and key, destroy the economy on purpose, scapegoat it to people not taking a shot.

I've figured out from my area the way to make the pandemic go away is as simple as quit paying attention to it. I've been told to wait two weeks for the mass graves for six months of generally normal life now and I'm still not seeing them. We had a spike in the case number manipulation bigger than the entirety of Australia in my general area earlier this year. We responded by not giving a shit, and it went away on it's own.