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Originally Posted by blankall
The point was that the government wasn't actually putting restrictions in place that prevented spread. They would allow family meetups during the holidays but then randomly close golf clubs in the summer.
It also became abundantly clear very early on that vaccines would not prevent spread. They did, however, vastly reduce serious infection. So vaccinated and relatively young people weren't an especially high risk to end up in the ICU...yet young people aged 18-40 seemed to be the most targeted by restrictions. The things they do were deemed least valuable.
People vaccinated under the age of 50 were in no way filling up hospitals.
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People under 50 interact with people over 50. And as long as there was a population of about 400K willingly unvaccinated 40+ year olds (to use Alberta as an example), there was a significant risk to the medical system if pre-Omicron variants were allowed to spread rapidly.
Once you accept that, it really just because a question of what activities to prioritize. There is no real incongruency in permitting small family gatherings and having in-person schooling, while requiring that restaurants temporarily have capacity limits or require vaccination to enter. Obviously the measures were far from perfect or consistent, but there was logic to most of them.