In my humble opinion, while this virus is a reality out there, it's been sensationalized ( and politicised) by the media to the point where it's hard to make sense of, or believe their reports, especially the "latest and greatest" ones. I think they're meant mainly to keep the populace scared and on edge, and to make them look at their fellow man as "boogeymen" with the potential to infect others with a dreaded illness.
I don't doubt Dr. Fauci is right about this "covid19" virus sticking around for a long stretch, if not joining its other coronavirus relatives ( which are among the viruses that cause common colds and other self-limited viral respiratory illnesses). If it maintains its capacity to infect humans, especially if it doesn't kill them off, but inflicts a mild ( or even moderately miserable) illness on its hosts, it could survive and be spread among the population for a long time.
And as is the nature of RNA viruses, it will likely mutate like we change socks, so it may well become less virulent as time goes on and we adapt to it being around, develop herd immunity, get vaccinated or whatever.
If this is its destiny, so to speak, I don't think hiding from it, acting as though it's Ebola or bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, is doing
anything but postponing the inevitable, and it comes with great harm, IMO, in crippling our economy, way of life, and stoking unreasonable fear in way too many people.
Ok, off my soapbox now.
