Is catching Covid inevitable?

[Beebityboo]

Gotten myself in to a bit of an anxious mess tonight. I'm vulnerable to Covid and have been desperately trying to think of ways to completely minimise the risk to myself and my DC's. Do you think too much caution is pointless? Is it inevitable we will all get this unless we literally go in to a bunker for a year or more?
DH was meant to be going to a house viewing tomorrow but I'm begging him to cancel as it will mean getting a taxi which I feel is a huge risk.
With the news about masks being needed for at least a year is this just how my life will be? Hiding in terror from a virus that may kill me at 33? Being terrified every time one of the DC's gets a cough or a temp?
I just feel that I can be as cautious as I want but if I want my DH and DC's to have any quality of life at all I need to find a way of accepting (and not being constantly terrified of) this real risk to our health. I don't know how to live in this "new normal" I'm not brave enough for it .

No I don't think it's inevitable, in fact in a lot of areas that have very low levels of infection I think it's really unlikely. In my area (rural West Midlands) according to a friend who has medic friends, our two nearest hospitals have had no Covid patients for weeks. And as a PP noted, doctors are tweaking their treatment of patients all the time (hence the clot-busting treatments) as they learn more about the virus.

I really feel for you - I don't suffer from anxiety (if I'm honest I think I'm too lazy, I can't be arsed with all the precautions involved in going out to do non-essential shopping rather than I'm too scared to do so) so don't know what to suggest on that front.