What made Covid such a crisis was not the average rate at which people were dying, but the peak rates at which they were being hospitalized, which threatened to overrun local healthcare infrastructure to the point where the death rate would skyrocket. Once vaccination became widespread, while the infection rate didn't massively decline, the hospitalization rate did. That's why the crisis is over, even though the pandemic persists.
The "X kills more people!" arguments were always missing the point, as is the argument that the current lack of urgency around the ongoing death rate means there shouldn't have been urgency in the past.
The "X kills more people!" arguments were always missing the point, as is the argument that the current lack of urgency around the ongoing death rate means there shouldn't have been urgency in the past.