The guy's been supporting his team for 60 years and has never seen football being forced to close down before. Of course people die from all sorts of shit every year, that's life (and death), but society usually does all it can to prevent this through medical care etc. There is absolutely no point in 'just' existing, we need to have some quality of life, however, if we don't do all we can to prevent the spread of Covid, then that's exactly what we will be doing for a long time to come! If this means that we can't restart the leagues after the shutdown, then so be it.
You're right, plenty of people die of flu each year but they don't tend to be queuing up in the hospital car park to do it!
Assuming that the vaccine can cope with the new strains then the majority of folk in the old and vulnerable groups should be vaccinated by the end of February, that, I would think will allow some of the restrictions to be progressively lifted, which may include not only football restarting, but fans being allowed back too at some level.