Humans use dichotomies as an easy heuristic to know how to react. Ferrets are bad. Rabbits are bad. But ferrets kill rabbits. Does that make a team of tame, neutered, rabbit-killing ferrets good? Or still bad?
Controlling rabbits has parallels with controlling COVID. It is hard and the subject of control expands at an exponential rate. Elimination appears attractive but is a challenging goal.