US is quite good example of present ruling class approach to coronavirus (aka stage 2).

Main goal is to keep infection rate such that load on medicine will be near maximum allowed, but not much higher.

Stage 1 also helps here as now around 60-80% of people now never go to hospital or try to perform coronavirus test.

Such way infection rate can be significantly higher with reported cases being low and deaths that you can safely count outside statistics.

Keeping infection rate is performed by playing with restrictions, opened businesses and also how tight controlled is the mask wearing.

Remember, ruling class is not your friend or even neural party, it is enemy that is boiling the frog with necessary gradient.