If more people took that approach it might have helped early on but eventually it was going to come down to a couple different end games.

1. We eradicate COVID-19 (sars-cov_2). The fact that there are many different coronaviruses out there would indicate this isn't likely to work. The willingness of this thing to mutate would also seem to be a big speedbump in this road. It's not smallpox.

2. We beat it back so it's uncommon in this country, like polio or mumps. We'd measure outbreaks in the hundreds and it makes the occasional news report instead of being among the leading causes of death. This MIGHT have been possible with an earlier response that was more restrictive and heavier vaccine use. However, other nations did this and still didn't manage to beat it back before it moved into the 3rd option. China is still trying for zero COVID-19.

3. Endemic. COVID-19 is here for the long haul. It's in the population. Mothers are going to pass their immunity onto new children. Survivors built antibodies. Vaccinated people built antibodies. Less deadly variants managed to sneak under the radar. We'll be stuck with this long term and probably forever. Coronaviruses are adaptable little jerks. Some just cause cold symptoms. Others cause SARS. Like it or not, we are here.

And as time progresses, the batters learn to go for base hits instead of home runs because it maximizes their time on base instead of killing the host.

I feel like most sci-fi misses how dark space is except for The Expanse. Even they had to brighten things up a bit for TV, but that shows realism is one of the things that kept me watching the entire run. They don't shrug off what would be lethal g-forces with magical devices like inertial dampers. Nope, you get strapped into a chair and you have to take it while the skill of the pilot (and some scifi special drug) is what keeps you from having a stroke.

And then you realize the ships aren't long flat decks like in Star Wars. They're actually like flying skyscrapers because the engines impart g-force on you while accelerating towards your destination and then the ship flips end over end and fires it's engine the opposite way to slow down. Equal and opposite reactions there folks.

It's really a cool series.

This is also why you "see things from the corner of your eye." Your visual clarity is best in your central field of view, but your eyes are actually better at detecting motion at the periphery of your view. Your eyes detect the change in light better at the edges and your brain says "something just moved."

As long as you don't allow any oxygen in, hydrogen is pretty tame. That's one of the safety issues with compromised water cooled reactors; the heat causes the water to split into it's component atoms and you end up with pure hydrogen, pure oxygen and a whole lot of heat.

That's why it's important to keep water on your core.