That's because the current variants are fairly mild. The original variant was brutal for the population at risk and we saw a jump in excess mortality. I believe

That's because the current variants are fairly mild. The original variant was brutal for the population at risk and we saw a jump in excess mortality. I believe mortality has since come back down. The anomaly was that the media were still making a big deal out of covid when vaccines were available and the variants were mild. Of course until the Ukrainian war started which magically "stopped covid". It will take time before passion and fear cool down and people look objectively at our reaction to covid. I think it will appear as a gigantic overreaction compared to similar outbreaks like the 1958 flu.