The mortality rates were overstated, even in The beginning. The science around the vaccines still isn’t fully complete. Actually having the virus and allowing your immune system to fight it has shown to give you better immunity response than boosters. Even when the messaging said otherwise. Even in light of that some in the community are sticking to the original hypothesis.
At this point the CDC advisory board is showing concerns that too frequent “boosting” may actually be training your immune system to ignore the disease and could have adverse affects.
Unless you have some serious Comorbidities (ie: severe hypertension, super high BMI, arrhythmias, cancer, organ transplants and on immune suppressants etc) then I don’t see much point in severely altering your life around it. If you feel bad, stay home. But otherwise treat it like the flu.
Have had it multiple times c including incredibly recently and it’s just a bad cold for most healthy folks. Just incredibly transmissible.
I don’t really understand all the dog whistling that is still going on about masks and being “bivalent protected”. Also, what China did literally locking people up in their apartments was far more authoritarian and disturbing than anything I saw of the virus in wuhan.