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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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You're really missing the point and countering an argument no one is making (who said anything about "hiding forever from it"?). When Delta was dominant, the vaccination rate hit its ceiling, leaving about 20% of the 50+ population in Alberta immunologically naive. So with that population, you really had 2 options:
a) Let it rip and have probably 10-20K or so hospitalizations in a short period of time, obliterating the healthcare system in the process.
b) Try to spread out the rate of infection over a longer period of time to keep the healthcare system functional. Surely you can understand why say 10,000 hospitalizations in Alberta over 2 months is a crisis whereas 10,000 hospitalizations over a year is less of one, right?
That's really all there is to it. There's no "protecting the vulnerable" because those 50+ year olds who chose not to get vaccinated refused to be protected. So what do you do?