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Originally Posted by niwell
Indeed - there were too many unknowns at first to reasonably navigate everything without messing up at some point. It's later on things got ridiculous. In Ontario's case the big issue was such massive wait times between each "step" of reopening at a point we were virtually all vaccinated. This is when people began to get really fed up and stopped caring, at least in my circles.
Of course there will always be the contingent that (seemingly to this day) demands people never go outside...
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Agree 100%.
The initial response to the pandemic was entirely appropriate.
The tardiness with which restrictions were lifted however was unconscionable. This did nothing but do great harm to the economy and to mental health (even to myself, a pretty level headed individual).
Of course, a bureaucracy runs at convoy speed, and trying to reverse a public policy decision by the bureaucracy is akin to stopping an oil tanker in the mid Atlantic - it can be done, but, the momentum of the beast means that you're final resting spot will be about a dozen nautical miles ahead.
Add in the aversion to risk taking by government bureaucracy, and cover-your-ass decision making, and we're lucky we still aren't under full COVID restrictions even now............