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Viruses are not 'alive,' and therefore cannot be killed. Destroyed certainly, but not killed.

They are nonliving infectious agents which can invade living cells, causing the cells to produce more viruses. The viruses are not themselves cellular, which is the base structure of all life.

That being said, the willingness to allow one's cells to be infected with pathogenic agents which can spread to one's fellow travelers causing illness and death when there is a safer alternative is quite selfish and shortsighted. The longer we take to get ahead of this, the greater the potential for more variations of the virus to find ways around our defenses. We will be in a continuous cycle of masking, shutdowns, bankruptcies, evictions, homelessness, and all the other fun features of our new normal, particularly the blame and hate. What's not to get angry about?

All this crying about 'the vaccine might do this; it might do that' is going to be much less painful than the slow death of civilization.