We know many people died from covid a few short months ago. We know people are still dying from it in Israel. We know flu is worse in the winter than the summer. I understand that people want to ignore the realities.
I think this year we have a legitimate taana to the Soton on Rosh Hashana. Usually the soton says, you wouldn’t ignore sakana so why did you ignore the possibility of Gehinnom? This year we can say, Of course we ignored the yetzer tov. We ignored actual sakana as well.
honestly though, we know fish and meat used to be sakana. we are still makpid even though it no longer seems like sakana. We should treat Covid like fish and meat- sakana even if it doesn’t appear that way right now.