Here's the thing: if people were getting seriously ill, it wouldn't be up for debate among the population about whether they were concerned about it.
People are scared of disease, it's an instinctual response. Same way that they are scared of dead bodies or open wounds. They are viscerally afraid of getting sick. You really don't need to tell people to be scared, you can just tell people that there is a disease and they will be scared.
If they aren't scared of the disease anymore, one of 3 things has happened:
The disease is so endemic that few people really care about getting it.
Other needs are more important than the disease.
The disease isn't harming people the way they were expecting.
COVID-19 is literally all 3. The disease isn't as harmful as was previously thanks to it's mutations, which is causing people's other needs to be important, and it's become endemic so that it's no longer relevant to be scared of getting it. It's becoming the equivalent of the Flu.
The response to "See you soon" is "No, you won't" because of all 3 of these factors.
Here's the thing: if people were getting seriously ill, it wouldn't be up for debate among the population about whether they were concerned about it.
People are scared of disease, it's an instinctual response. Same way that they are scared of dead bodies or open wounds. They are viscerally afraid of getting sick. You really don't need to tell people to be scared, you can just tell people that there is a disease and they will be scared.
If they aren't scared of the disease anymore, one of 3 things has happened:
COVID-19 is literally all 3. The disease isn't as harmful as was previously thanks to it's mutations, which is causing people's other needs to be important, and it's become endemic so that it's no longer relevant to be scared of getting it. It's becoming the equivalent of the Flu.
The response to "See you soon" is "No, you won't" because of all 3 of these factors.