Each excuse you make for covid being as endemic is valid, and indeed also used as criticism by antivaxxers. It's two sides of the same coin. Can't be helped.
What matters to me, and what should matter to anyone else, is that indeed many of these excuses/criticisms do not apply to monkeypox. Which means that we need an entirely new mode of communication to get people to recognise that this massive ineffectual effort we applied to covid while knowing it's an endemic disease are also the same measures that are able to eradicate monkeypox.
You recognise that monkeypox is different. But you dismiss them because it makes the covid approach look more hopeless in comparison. It's understandable, but it's also a sunk cost fallacy. Zero monkeypox is achievable. It's not even difficult. But it's not happening as long as people associate those measures with the results of covid measures.