My question is why? COVID is guaranteed to be endemic and we have to learn to live normal lives with a low background level of risk rather than adhere to safety

My question is why? COVID is guaranteed to be endemic and we have to learn to live normal lives with a low background level of risk rather than adhere to safetyism. For most people, particularly those under 50, the risks from COVID are incredibly low. If you are healthy (not overweight, eating a nutritious diet) the risks are even lower. Having poor health practices puts you at greater risk of being hospitalized with COVID, which in turn makes you more infectious than the typical positive-testing person. Unvaccinated people may have natural immunity from antibodies they’ve developed, and with potentially better characteristics (related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224). Vaccinated people are already very safe from serious illness. But both have the ability to transmit the virus and neither has a guaranteed level of safety. Therefore, imposing restrictions seems arbitrary to me. Let the vaccinated do what they want and let the unvaccinated catch it. Those who are at severe risk, or just worried, need to protect themselves with extra precautions or self isolation. But overriding people’s right to medical autonomy and privacy for some poorly understood arbitrary middle ground of risk seems unnecessary and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.