I personally don't miss talking to people in person that much, But:

 I miss just being around people on trails or sidewalks or in cars without masks who might say "Hello" to me.

I miss people being happy enough in life to say hello to me without being afraid of catching Covid from Talking to ANYONE even one word.

I have enough long conversations with my wife in person and my one of my daughters and her husband who are in our Covid Bubble with us (at least for now).

and I have long conversations on the phone with 2 of my children in Oregon and friends in Mt. Shasta.

But, what I miss is people not too terrified to even say "HI" on the streets and trails for fear of catching Covid.

It might take 50 years or more or never for humans to get back what they have lost through the era of Covid So far I'm thinking.

Paranoia strikes deep.

But, sometimes paranoia is necessary to stay alive isn't it? If you are alive now it means you learned to be paranoid enough to survive all this so far doesn't it?

Because of all the variants that are worse than the original version we likely could lose another 500,000 people here in the U.S. by this time next year too unfortunately.

The problem as I see it is there are too many unknowns around the vaccines.

For example:

How long are you even immune to the original strain before you could get it again?

1 month, 3 months, 6 months?

Likely not longer than that.

So, because of this if you want to travel you might want to within a month of your 2nd vaccination (if you are going for a 2 shot vaccination.)

Because you don't know for sure at this point when your immunity to the original non-variant one ends.

So, in this sense vaccines might even cause more deaths in the long run because no one at least at this point knows how long anyone will remain immune even to the first Covid-19 that hit last year.