Coivd-19 Tough Choices

Covid 19 is not going away and we will have to earn to live with it according to the medical people so at some point all the World is going to have to say right that's it, no more lock-downs, we have to get back to normal regardless of the consequences.
Flu kills approximately 8,000 Brits each year, 650,000 globally while Covid 19 has taken 126,000 British souls and 3 million around the World in the same time period so it is obviously much more lethal than Flu but in the Pre-Covid days, the Government never locked down for Flu, just told people to get the jab as 8,000 deaths was an acceptable trade off number for them.
I guess the Government have their hopes pinned on the Covid jab doing the same as the Flu jab and the numbers of infections, hospitlisations and deaths will come down as the nation are vaccinated but the jabs are not 100% effective and some will still catch the highly contagious virus despite having the vaccine so the Government must decide a number which they find acceptable.
A week after restrictions were lifted to allow non-essential shops pubs, bars and restaurants to open, there has been a further 1,882 people tested positive which is an 8.7% increase on last Sunday and the daily death toll has increased too, with the 10 fatalities recorded today compared to seven deaths on this day last week and as there is a few week lag, these figures are from the previous lifting of rules, the figures from this week will be filtering through in a fortnights time.
With news that more virulent variants are cropping up in nations that never stamped on the virus immediately and allowed it to reach high infection levels, Brazil, UK, India, South Africa, then it obviously isn't just going to disappear and will be with us for the foreseeable future and so the decision is that we either treat it like flu and just grit our teeth and accept a certain number of deaths each year as was the UK Governments Plan A, or we go into a never-ending cycle of lock-downs and re-openings and the economic havoc that strategy brings.