Yes and we put a lot of time into making a vaccine. What if I said too many people are dying of car accidents, and they can almost all be completely prevented by lowering speed limits to walking speed. We live with the risk because it is low enough and making everyone travel at extremely low speeds would have a very adverse effect on the economy and quality of life. Safety improvements have been implemented that have not had a very onerous impact on life like having an airbag and seatbelt. And they allow us to drive at reasonable speeds with a reasonable level of safety. But still 40k people a year die in the USA.

So if technology produces ways to make living with COVID less onerous and safer then why not? It is easy for us as mostly tech people to be like yeah lock that down forever. I am still getting paid full pay working from home, and my packages still come to the door. But for a lot of people it is a very large cost to pay. And eventually we will not be able to keep printing money out of it. People need to work and live.

And not like it should matter but I live in NY where we saw one of the worst spikes of death, am fully vaccinated, had a relative die of COVID, and know others that have. I also posted this early on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406702 So it isn't like I am nonchalant about the virus. It is just that there is a balance.