“The vast majority of the mortality and of the stress on the health care system comes from people with a few particular conditions, and especially people who are over 60,” Dr. Lipsitch said. “If we can protect those people against severe illness and death, then we will have turned Covid from a society disrupter to a regular infectious disease.”
This is what we do with the flu. Inoculate as many of the high risk individuals as possible, and as many people as are willing to get stuck. Not sure how that is depressing to you.