Are efforts against covid useless ?

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I just seem to feel anything we have done over the past year with this virus has been in vain. It seems to come across that way especially from scientists and other experts and the media, who point out that people are still infecting one another and so on. I myself am frustrated by it and even frustrated with my own anxiety and mindset which keeps telling me ''Look, you have got to return to some of normalcy in your life again, you can't keep avoiding going out on your days off work and avoid invitations and things. Otherwise you'll just end up like a hermit.'' And I don't want to be, I don't want to live a life where I am on edge because someone behind me is coughing and worrying they have a virus. I was never like that before the pandemic but I'm worried I'll be in this state of mind for the rest of time. My dad wants me to see him for his birthday at restaurant and a part of me feels reluctant to go and another says I should just go because I can't keep avoiding things like this.

Fear about the coronavirus is useless; so are people who refuse the vaccines for reasons other than medical ones.

When I said something similar to a paramedic, he set me straight in no uncertain terms. Since vaccination started here, he's taken far fewer covid patients in a critical condition to Intensive Care. And his colleagues have stopped dying of it.

No. Due to taking precautions and having vaccinations no one I know has become so seriously ill that they've been hospitalised or died. I know one person with long covid, but apart from that my workmates, friends and family are all safe and sound.

We still need to take care, but it's not futile.

No. Without the restrictions there would've been more deaths, more serious cases and probably more lasting effects for those who did get infected. Same with if there weren't vaccinations.

Some might ask if the restrictions are worth the toll they take on economy, and people tend to have some differing opinions on this one. I'd say that yes, they're worth it, 'cause you can always rebuild the economy, from zero if you have to, but you can't always restore lost health and you most certainly can't wake the dead.

No.  Every person I know who has been vaccinated against covid is still alive, even those who caught the virus after being vaccinated; and everyone I knew who did not get vaccinated and caught the virus has died.

One more died last night.  I will not attend her funeral.

I'm fortunate. I survived COVID unscathed well before there were vaccinations. March, 2020. I am fortunate to have had a mild case---a 3-week flu, basically.

People who were not vaccinated tended to have more serious cases, in my experience, than those who were vaccinated.

Vaccination, unfortunately, doesn't prevent COVID-----but it certainly mitigates the EFFECTS of COVID. It leads to less hospitalizations and deaths.

The treatments and testing are more effective. The pills that are about to become available have tested to be very effective. In another words people who would get have gotten severe COVID will probably not suffer severe COVID. If these pills work as expected and with boosters COVID will truly become just another illness with no need for mitigation measures.

There will be those who will also be anti pill saying they could not trick us into taking the vaccines so they are trying to trick us with this. At that point there will be no reason to let the refusnicks impair our lives, let em become disabled or die, unlike now they will present minuscule risk to most everybody.

This progress has been accomplished in an incredibly quick amount of time.

The OP points to something that will be a real problem. Call it traumatization, call it PTSD people and governments will be unrealistically fearful, do unneeded mitigation out of an abundance of caution for a time. The next flu outbreak will probably result in government and personal mitigation measures that would have not happened pre COVID. That said most will not be permanently paralyzed with fear.

When 9/11 happened they said we will never view comedy the same again, irony is history etc. I live in the New York area every plane that flew overhead sent a chill, even a digital clock saying 9:11 sent a chill up my spine. Walking by Manhattan skyscrapers my thought was better take a good look at that building it may the last time I ever see it. Those feelings gradually and unevenly went away. Life is not exactly the way it was pre 9/11 and it won’t be the same post pandemic/endemic COVID. That always is true even without traumatic events.

I seem to think that there are people who feel its better to be infected than to be vaccinated because you could have much long term immunity than the vaccine. I used to always think vaccines were the best weapons to fight a pandemic and that its better and safer to be vaccinated than being infected and falling really ill. I have often thought that now we have vaccines and that it was supposed to weaken the severity of the virus and that people are still getting infected. Are they only catching a less severe virus from someone or are they still catching the virus that was already severe before it infected people ?