What do you mean, "people"? This isn't the default state of human beings, we HAVE no default state. We're born as helpless sacks of meat which can't even walk or eat without assistance; all of our knowledge and behavior is cultural.
A culture which cannot adapt to a clear and present danger will go extinct, and good riddance.
Also this: https://fair.org/home/new-yorker-takes-aim-at-people-who-still-think-covid-is-a-problem/
Off-topic, but wasn't that $2.7B that Biden gave to the families of 9/11 victims stolen from the government of Afghanistan?
Also lol this article is still not great. The bit MaoistLandlord qouted is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen; OBVIOUSLY we're not going to get better, and millions more will die or be disabled. In a just world, anyone who minimized the pandemic would be shot.
When I build a time machine I am going to go back in time and shoot John Birch in the mouth twice.