If they would let Omicron in right now, you could at least make an argument that their approach had some advantages. At the cost of 2 years of paranoia, they prevented the coronavirus from getting in until most people could be vaccinated and a more benign variant emerged.

To do this now is madness though. Precisely because the current vaccine' protection against infection declines rapidly. I guess they could be waiting for a special Omicron vaccine, but that is a very high cost, dubious reward proposition.

Of course, I'm talking rubbish, because none of this is about public health, but a dry-run for tyranny.