People are making the mistake of celebrating and going a little wild because it's finally over. It's not, not by a long shot. The worst may well be still to come. the sheer glee with which some are almost willing things to get worse and worse is pretty tiresome.
First it was “there will be more waves. Then it was the vaccination won’t work/they’ll never be able to create a vaccination, look at HIV by way of an example. 
And now that there is a vaccine and it’s working people are saying “well, there will be variants you know, and the vaccines won’t be able to fight those. And the worst is yet to come.
It must be exhausting to live like that.
And you know what? Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. Maybe there will be other pandemics, maybe there won’t. Maybe you’ll go out tomorrow and be hit by a truck, maybe you won’t.
I know only too well about long-term effects of an illness. Flu 4.5 years ago and now I’m in heart failure, heading towards the transplant list (although I am very fortunate to be well enough not to be there at the moment,) bu life goes on.
We’ve always had illnesses where people have had long-term effects. Polio, smallpox, TB, rubella. All of which have either been eradicated (smallpox) or considerably lessened because of vaccinations.
COVID is one in many illnesses which has the potential to cause serious illness and death. The reason why we are so on top of it is because it’s new, and every symptom, every treatment, every after effect is a new discovery.
But it won’t always be like that. COVID will be replaced by something else one day. Not necessarily something which has the same impact, but there will be new discoveries, new victims, new symptoms, and new treatments. It’s a fact of life.
We need to be careful, and I agree that swarming to the pub isn’t the way to do it, hence why I didn’t go there yesterday and am not planning to any time soon.
But if you don’t want things to increase again, then don’t complain about being one of the people packed into a pub. You didn’t have to stay.