And that's with the lockdowns. The figures could easily be an order of magnitude or more worse be now without them. We successfully managed to not exceed the capacity of our healthcare system, for the most part.
There's no world in which the pandemic is running unchecked through society and people are acting like everything is fine and normal and doing all the usual stuff they're accustomed to.
This is a conflation of what the virus itself has down, and the response to it.
The loss of a loved one is never temporary.
There is no vaccine against COVID-19... unless you consider drinking bleach or dying...
The actual deaths we've seen and the overwhelming of hospitals in multiple countries refute the kind of narrative you're fantasizing about.