it is really down to their own fear for themselves and they want everyone else to think about their wellbeing whilst not actually caring much about anyone else
The people who are afraid are one thing.
There are those who have reason to be genuinely afraid, and those who have health anxiety.
The irrationally anxious will get less would up about Covid if life goes back to normal and their fears are shown to be baseless.
The real enemy (and I think that is the right word) is the moral crusaders of various stripes. They embraced lockdown and are now trying to shame people into wearing masks, because of the power it gives them over other people's lives.
They are only too happy to give up travelling for years "until the virus is gone" because they work in unaffected well-paid tech jobs of the kind that have embraced permanent home working and no more in-person conferences.
They have a outsized influence on Twitter, which is where lazy journalists go for stories and to have their prejudices confirmed.
They are bolstered by public servants at home on full pay and people on furlough.
These are the complacent lockdown enthusiasts, performing restriction the sane way they perform white guilt.
They are a dangerous mob of the privileged, who won't lose anything, backed by those with nothing to lose.
They think the virus is moral - that it attacks countries based on how much they agree or disagree with the politics of their leader.
They create, read, and share endless mathematical models, graphs, dataviz graphics created by people with no public health expertise and believe it is neutral.
They have a lot of cultural power and have already brought about a situation where basic scientific facts can be changed to suit their politics.