arguably omicron is a 'regular' winter virus, and i agree that we will learn to live with it and be better prepared for it.
but also arguably the earlier variants were anything but 'regular'. they were new, without any effective treatments or strategies (i'm talking 2020, before vaccines, before ivermectin, whilst ventilators were being used etc). if those variants had been allowed to run wild, like other 'regular' winter viruses then the increased death rate would have been unimaginable IMO. (i know you don't trust the figures, with your double flu season narrative, so we will have to agree to disagree on this point, rather than replay the argument).