How about averting the easily exploited, "no cost is too great" mentality entirely? If the cost is a disease which kills people smack-dab on the average human lifespan, 99% of which already had a significant confounding disease. We live on an overpopulated planet amidst global ecological collapse. Nobody seems to care about the millions, mostly children under 5, dying of respiratory illnesses caused by pollution or crippled for their entire lives from malaria. Nobody seems to care that deaths from child abuse have sky-rocketed to unprecedented levels in the last year. Yet here we are grieving death in nursing homes, where people go to die. Covid is barely a blip in a long succession of diseases. Letting it do as much damage as possible is the best thing that could have happened to the survivors. Especially since for all that door-nailing, mask-wearing, and aggressive signage all we managed to do was spread a pandemic of emotional toxicity, so long as you weren't from a small isolated island. But hey, I guess we got some good drama and a reason to shame our friends and neighbors out of it.