Or it could be that if something goes on long enough it becomes life. There are a lot of things in our lives that if they just popped up suddenly in utopia, it would become a crisis. COVID will never go away completely. Responsible people did what they could to mitigate it as best as possible (Lockdowns to start, vaccines, masks, vaccines). Now we live in a world where it is one more thing that can kill you out of the many in our lives that are 100% fatal in the end.

Most people I think just want to return to "normal". We live in a new normal, but we can't live in crisis forever. I don't think that is necessarily apathy it is adapting.