English  How about common idioms?

My Goood- as the Americans exclaim - 1,7 mio dead worldwide!!! I'm glad to live in a small comunity - my husband and me and sometimes our children - . We avoid to meet  friends, because they contact too many people, which I wouldn't. So - desolated and mostly at home - we feel save.

Hi Phil, I am sure that after most people have been vaccinated it will start to get better.
There is still fear about the reaction of it. But until we get our injection there has been a lot of OLD people who has been sort of guinea pigs been before.
If they survive…(naughty me) WE WILL SURVIVE.
Ahem
I may write those words as I am at that age as well.

The die is cast
This idiom seems to fit here
Meaning
an unalterable decision has been reached, or step taken to vaccinate a lot of humans.