It's weird how a mass vaccination campaign has changed the narrative.
Exponential growth, even from a low base level, is worthy of attention. It was prior to vaccines and should be even more so now. Vaccine has failed to prevent exponential growth with a worrying doubling rate that threatens to overwhelm national health services even if severity is lower due to weight of numbers over a short period. This is disastrous for the resumption of normal service.
Prior to vaccination there was a lag between case rise, hospitalisation and death. Post partial and incomplete vaccination the lower hospitalisation and death rate at the same time as rate of cases diagnosed is heralded as a success. This was said at the start of the second wave.
Don't give a fuck? Terror? Bollocks. I am not terrified by the idea that I can't go to a pub/restaurant/cinema etc in the near future during a global pandemic. I give a fuck about friends and family and the wider community (that I rely on). My DC aren't in school but I support provision of schooling. I am a f/t carer and am not free to work outside the home but I support employment. I don't use public transport but I support it.
There is also the theory - backed by scientific understanding of the dynamic - that the vaccinated are far from bullet proof but are instead asymptomatic breeding grounds for the virus. Hence the less vulnerable become infected and eventually pass back vaccine resistant strains to the initially vulnerable but then vaccinated.