No, not mutually exclusive, P, I quite agree. But I wonder about the adjectives:
Dangerous? Yes, moderately, though I’d need to see the all-causes death figures for this year, cleansed of all the shenanigans to which they’ve - obviously - been subjected, and finally clarified, before I’d agree that, yes, it was a really bad killer, justifying the word ‘pandemic’. Currently, I doubt that. As the guys at UKColumn said: ‘The all-causes death figures are hardest to fiddle’. The truth about that will come out eventually, I believe.
And ‘out of control’? I have to say, the very idea of humankind being able to control the behaviour, and the continuous, non-stoppable evolution, of the air-plankton - ever - is just a huge joke, at the expense of our ludicrous self-importance. Is there an uptick in deaths from respiratory diseases this Winter? Yes of course, how not? Is it mainly covid? Who knows? Not us. Quite possibly not anyone for sure, considering the utter Johnsonian omnishambles of this year, and the equally obvious manipulative deceits that have been flying about. Noticeable, though, that lots of normally-expected deaths from flu, heart-failures, etc., seem to have been banished almost completely by the magic of covid…?
In the event that there is a lot of excess death, and it really is due to covid, then what we could do right now, to really mitigate the disaster as far as is - genuinely - humanly possible (rather than allowing a set of probably quite criminal manipulators continue to make monkeys out of us all, and run us ragged with lying terror-porn, with doubtful purposes in mind) is to follow the sober prescriptions of the Great Barrington Declaration. What we are doing gets to be ever more obviously a total nonsense; not liable to have any noticeable effect on the illness, but wreaking horrendous damage on the entire fabric of society - including avoidable excess deaths - in the mean time. Cheers bro! 
Nice one!