You can meet many people as a volunteer in a Covid station in a hospital in many countries right now. Also helping to burn bodies.

Death robs you of your humanity far more effectively than any lockdown. Also now that we have several effective vaccines being rolled out all over the world, it makes even less sense to have this attitude. And all this in the name of some Linux talks and pommes frites? I think you need a little bit more perspective on the situation.

I live in Australia, so my life has been back to normal for several months now. I get the feeling you are afraid of something though, so maybe you're projecting those fears onto other people.

I've been able to leave my home this entire pandemic. What are you even talking about. And given how badly the rest of the planet is handling things, I wouldn't leave Australia even if I could (though we can visit New Zealand, which is pretty nice this time of year).

("If the vaccines don't work" is a pretty big if given we have a plethora of evidence that they are effective. You can't "what if" yourself into a reasonable argument.)