Holding the line means being "comfortable with being uncomfortable". We have to endure being stripped of all kinds of civil liberties, kept in a "holding pattern" for our own safety, and repress our natural urge to fight in the ways that are unhelpful. It's like having to be a farmer when you want to be a soldier, because you're planing your future harvest in a war zone.
Psychological war is real war. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
On one hand, if the Pandemic were real, and the worst of the numbers were real, it's reasonable to wear masks, and... do whatever is working best across the world to prevent and treat the virus. It's just nowhere to be seen. It's an invisible pandemic that requires a television to notice. Anyway, be an emitter, more than a receiver, look at psychic warfare.