The problem isn’t the deaths. I mean, I’ve lost family and a friend, almost several friends (all in their 40s!) to covid. Deaths are a kind of easily manageable problem at society scale.
The problem at society level is long covid, brain damage, vascular damage, kidney damage, etc. Danger of surgeries and of treatments requiring suppressing or wiping immune systems, in the covid era. The problem is the massive burnout of medical staff who are trying their best, at the expense of their own health and sanity, to carry society through this.
Here’s another problem. I am an always masker too. But most people aren’t, where I live. So I won’t work in an office again, I won’t shop in shops. I’ll order online, I’ll work remote. I’ve stopped traveling for holidays since I can’t be sure of the hotel hygiene and who was in the room the previous day. I don’t think I’m the only one doing this.