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Originally Posted by opendoor
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.
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The virus was widespread and everywhere. People over 50 were never going to hide forever from it. Your view is based on a belief that if we kept Covid suppressed for long enough vulnerable people could avoid being exposed. After a certain point, it became clear that wasn't the case. The government kept up a bunch of showy but largely non-effective restrictions to appease people.
After vaccination, it made sense to shift towards protecting vulnerable, as the rate of severe infection in non-vulnerable and vaccinated were extremely low. That shift took another 8 months to make. It's just one example of where the economic and social harm could have been mitigated but wasn't.