@NailsNeedDoing
Op, I'm guessing that you're not vulnerable and don't give a fuck if the vulnerable die or not. Can't you see how cold you are?
There are things that people who are vulnerable to Covid can do to protect themselves, and those people should have the financial support they need to do so, but paying for that requires the rest of us to be earning at full capacity.
There is less that the people who are vulnerable to the effects of lockdown can do to protect themselves, and they deserve to be considered too.
I can really understand why it seems like a simple solution, to just decide to think of covid as something different and milder as a way of getting things back to normal.
Unfortunately it's not going to work, firstly because it isn't flu - far more people have no immunity for a start, which means hospitals would face huge numbers of patients and have to stop all other treatments again, if we let numbers get high again. Secondly it's not a disease with a well known course doctors are familiar with, known treatments, understanding of long-term effects.
From an economic point of view there's another important thing to remember: almost no one is going to be "earning at full capacity" while the virus is circulating. Many many people are still avoiding most of the travelling, shops, hairdressers, restaurants, and holidays they used to go on. No amount of telling them that they 'ought' to be out spending money as normal will make a big chunk of the population do that, while a new illness with some very concerning potential effects is out there, because that sort of spending is not essential.
The only thing that would truly get everyone (not just those who are currently feeling confident) spending money as normal, and being educated and getting medical treatment as normal, is vanishingly low levels of covid in the community. Treating this as though it was flu and shrugging our shoulders and behaving as if it doesn't really matter if we catch it will unfortunately have the opposite effect, as that will cause higher levels of covid in the community.
Like I said I do understand the appeal of what seems like a simple solution, but unfortunately it really won't work.