but not everyone is going to get COVID.
Nearly everyone is going to get COVID.
where being a full blown alcoholic doesn't disqualify you from receiving a liver transplant
Smoking or drinking disqualifies you from being a transplant recipient.
Organ transplants are a holistic decision making process in which a cirrhotic from drinking alcohol is a not eligible for a transplant in some centers.
Some centers have tried to move away from this viewing addiction as a disease. And with it, you could receive a liver transplant after alcohol abuse caused a dead liver. However, even in those programs you are required to have ameliorated the risk factor through abstinence and evidence of no drinking.
And even then, It's only one decision making point that adds risk of "wasting" the organ and someone that was a good match and didn't have a likelihood of relapse would go first in line.