Let's assume that eradicating covid (if somehow possible) via lockdowns and distancing would cost a 25% quality of life decrease for 2 years. That's equivalent losing 1% of all current human life.
Or perhaps we would not eradicate COVID, but we'd avoid dying from it, and we'd have reduced quality of life forever.
Or perhaps we would not eradicate COVID, but we'd avoid dying from it, and we'd have reduced quality of life forever.