People will be dying from coronavirus regularly, from now on. Forever. The question really is: how many years of life expectancy are we willing to trade for how we used to live? or for how we used to live with masks in public? I think a lot of left thinking is avoiding this Q.

Compare our expectation around coronavirus to other major killers, like heart disease. We view these as inevitable. We're used to thinking about these risks. Are we thinking clearly when we think about a world with no new coronavirus cases globally?

One aspect that this line of reasoning ignores: the possibility that, if left to mutate, the virus has a nontrivial chance of becoming much more dangerous to society. In that case, we have no chance but to eradicate it.