With thanks to Barakta and Kim, I think there’s a lot more nuance required Chris.
We are now at the point that for most healthy people most of the time Covid is non-serious. I don’t think lack of mask wearing demonstrates that though - that’s an artefact of human nature and the information people have received.
We’re at this point as a consequence of a mass rollout of vaccinations and multiple infections. There are still a lot of vulnerable people around and, as with other potential life threatening infections, it behaves us to behave appropriately to protect them too.
Before we got to today’s position, we lost a friend to Covid - he was in his early 50s maybe, I have a (vaccine resistant) colleague who hasn’t worked for 2 years and know another peer who, after 9 months in bed had to downsize her job and income to be able to cope. At the start and the height of it, my wife saw old people discharged from hospital into care settings who were either rushed back to ICU a few days later or who went home, apparently well, and died of strokes etc a few days or weeks later. Anecdotal, but aligned with the evidence and stats we’ve done since.
There is also emerging, but still uncertain, evidence about the impact of repeated infections on some people. That just needs watching of course.
However, whilst for most of us Covid is no longer considered threatening, it remains so for some and I am cautious that we don’t adopt a revisionist approach to history now we, by and large, once again feel safe.
FWIW, part of my day job is to make assessments of how long we expect people to live in the future. At present, Covid itself isn’t weighing in very heavily but the state of the economy and of the NHS means that we have been taking a relatively pessimistic view for the last couple of years and we’re not feeling any better about it this year.