Things change. And then the changes change. And then .... well you get the picture. Nothing stays the same. And so it will be with Covid. It's here now and then in a few years (probably not months) it'll be yesterday's news and we'll be adapting to the new normal in the same way we adapt to borders closing or opening or politics or ideologies coming or going. That's the reality of travel - you go when and where you can and you pick your own level of 'adventure' / danger / experience.

What's changed (for the better or worse? - you can make up your own mind) is how easy it is to shove your 'unique' adventure in everyone else's face. I notice you posted something similar on the Horizons Facebook pages, a place that seems to be nothing but tales of the 'look upon my travels ye mighty and despair (and buy the book)' type so it's maybe not surprising that there's an element of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out for anyone who doesn't know it) going on. Maybe more people are travelling these days (and the amount of commercial activity surrounding it suggests there are) so it's inevitable some will be taking the hair shirt route. What's certain though is that the participants are making even more noise about it. In some respects it's a bit like people discovering sex for the first time. It's a whole new world opening up and some people will shout about it (parenthood, on the other hand, is like finding all the borders have just closed )

Far be it for me to suggest what you need to do but ignoring it all and doing what appeals to me is how I've responded. In fact my response over the last week has been to postpone a (short) trip that should have seen me on the way to the ferry right at this moment. I was planning a loop down the west side of France via the HU meeting in Loupiac, the Camargue and the Alps but the upsurge in CV-19 over the last week has done for it. I suppose I could have gone and written about how I faced the plague of the century (complete with drone footage and galaxy strewn nightime pictures) and survived but I'm not sure a real risk is worth a fantasy (facebook) reward (in fact I'm sure it isn't). I'll pick up my travel projects as and when they're possible (+ time and money allow) and I doubt very much I'll bother anyone else with what I got out of them.