Big Tech Companies Prepare to Skirt Trump's $100k H-1B Fee

Am I taking crazy pills, or did we not literally just have a global pandemic that forced all developers to work from home for over a year, and literally there was no problem?

Is it actually possible that it has occurred to no-one to just hire them without asking they move their physical bodies into the US? Or if TZ is such a biggie, get them a visa to literally anywhere within the Americas?