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Originally Posted by opendoor
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?
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You could definitely make a case that if everyone got vaccinated, and made a best effort to following guidelines to reduce spread, not nearly as many restrictions would have been required, and would not have been required for nearly as long.
One major lasting effect is that the anti-vax movement for all vaccinations seems to have grown signficantly. Right-wingers weren't traditionally very anti-vax pre-covid, and now it is becoming part of their movement.