Instead of "middle of the pack" you could be at the bottom of the pack like New Zealand - ~15k total cases, 50 deaths reported, vs Florida's 5 million reported cases and 63k deaths. The population ratio is ~1/4, so it's slightly less bad for Florida than it looks. Of course, that's an unreasonable target, but it's an example of a real western nation managing COVID at scale. Your only choice isn't to just let everyone get the disease and hope herd immunity kicks in fast enough while praying that Long COVID doesn't cause problems later.