1. Of course fear works. That always has and always will be the case. Media and politicians will always use it when they can. That said, the original discussions around covid potentially killing hundreds of thousands of Americans was not fear. That was reality even though you brushed that idea off as fear as well.
2. I get what you're saying when you say "or in poor health" - but you also have to recognize there that the vast majority of people over 50 would be classified in that bucket. It's not like all these were people knocking on deaths door.
3. Vaccines do work, and I agree that restrictions are no longer necessary. Our opinions aside, politicians are not just going to sit back and watch areas with low vaccination rates fill up hospitals so they are trying to encourage more people to get vaccinated.
4. Viruses mutating is constant, though not a rule that it would be more or less deadly or more or less virulent.
There is a possibility it mutates into the common cold. Also a possibility it mutates into something similar to SARS where it kills a much more significant number of infected people.
5. I don't understand your line of thinking there. Everything is back to normal for you and has been for some time. What have we not moved on from?
