This obvious inconsistency is relevant to the discussion.
In the case of things like car crashes, there's a significant benefit of using cars that means we choose to tolerate deaths as part of the cost of having easy access to transport. The same is true of many things that kill people. The utility of the cause of the deaths means the cost is accepted.
I don't think there's a strong argument in favor of the usefulness of Covid.
The strong argument is in favor of not living life as though we were amid a crisis, locked down and paranoid.
There is even an argument in favor of not requiring masks. It's a much weaker one, but the benefits are not large either because masks on the general population are not very effective against omicron.
There is definitely a strong argument in favour of not shutting down an economy because of it.