One can come up with anecdotal stories about the “reopening” to support whatever point of view you want. I pray this OP’s point of view is correct. Yet what I have seen in Upstate South Carolina is an extremely cautious approach both on the parts of business and consumers.
I think that most people want to get back to normal. The problem is that the Democrat-Media-Complex has a lot of folks scared sh*tless.
I work for a national security Contractor--whose primary customer agency went nuts over COVID. But because my group works at a company building, we have only gone through some of the nonsense going on at Customer sites. My immediate colleagues seem wearied by all of this nonsense. Many of our colleagues and Customers went to half-time; we have been on full time. We are also engineers--and not gulled as easily as average citizens.