Avoiding The Paralysis Of Fear And Post-apocalyptic Mindset?

Over the last year Covid-19 restrictions (including lockdown) have been justified on the basis that they are intended to flatten the curve whilst a vaccine was being developed. This took roughly a year.

But now that countries are rolling out the vaccine and we can expect the most vulnerable (by age and underlying medical conditions) to be protected through vaccination in the next few months, that does now raise the question, how long can we continue to justify restrictions against those who are not deemed vulnerable, no longer wish to be restricted and are prepared to accept the risk?

Some commentators are suggesting that people might not be allowed to travel outside national borders for fear that new variants of the virus from other countries could be brought back and therefore that the hospitality sector might not be allowed to open as before until earliest after summer and latest 2022. New Zealand's prime minister has already said that the country's borders