What are people meant to do though? Live in fear forever? My current job is in covid testing and we are starting to ramp down everything and even laid off a chunk of staff as the profits are not worth it anymore to the owner. Right now we barely have around £2000 in tests per day coming in which isn't enough to pay staff wages and rent for all the testing centres (20 odd people in everyday across customer service, the testing centres and the lab itself) , many staff were let go to downsize and it's getting lower all the time. It's to a point that if any of the customer service staff are sick it causes big issues keeping a 24/7 service running without loads of overtime. The whole thing just isn't sustainable anymore as many places just don't need testing anymore. Most our queries per day are either stupid questions that common sense can answer or refund requests. This may change in the coming weeks as cases will inevitably rise but they can't just lock everything down again.
"Live in fear forever"? Who's saying that? Learning to live with Covid should mean exactly that,
learning to live with it, not what we are currently doing, which is ignoring it completely, which will inevitably lead to hospitals getting over run again, that then having a knock-on effect to urgent non-Covid related treatments, whether we like it or not we need to change the way we behave now, that doesn't mean we are all living in fear, 'learning to live with it' is the best way to keep us out of the lockdown cycle, not by ignoring it.
I think Covid has shone a bright light on the inherit flaws that reside in so many people in society, namely selfishness, people not prepared to make any sacrifices for the betterment of the larger community, as long as they are ok in the moment screw everyone else.