I see this argument popping up again, probably because of Biden. People want to close up everything for three months and think everything will be all right and back to normal are just not realistic. Who can afford to do that? Anyone in a service industry really felt the economic pain this year, another shutdown will be the end for many more businesses. A lot of countries did the manditory mask-wearing, business shutdown etc, only to have cases pop back to peak.
When lock downs are done, it inevitably spikes again in every area that has tried strict lock downs. Look at Spain or France compared to Sweden right now.
Conservatives said from the beginning that the left was trying to lock down for a full year or longer until a vaccine is ready.
Liberals said conservatives were conspiracy theorizing on that, and that the lock downs would just be a couple of weeks.
We now know conservatives were right and liberals were either wrong or lying.