I don't know a single person who loves restrictions. But people want this to end and this tweet sums up mine (and I'm certainly sure many other people's) feelings:
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The restrictions HAVE proven to work. Both Wave 1 and Wave 2 were subdued by restrictions. They didn't dissipate on their own, and each new wave has occured soon after restrictions have been eased.
The problem is that most places in Canada have never successfully done true and proper contact tracing to really zero in on specific/precise data on transmission sources. We have general ideas of the worst places that need to be targeted, but no real/proper data to definitively say which places might be truly very low risk.
Even when they touted that "schools are safe, transmission is not happening at schools" I know that statement to be utterly false. My neighbours child got covid. He went nowhere other than school. The rest of the family didn't have or get Covid. The ONLY place that child could have got covid was from school. Isolated incident? More rampant spread in schools? Well we don't really know becasue true and meticulous contact tracing doesn't occur, just the surface level stats of "this is how many kids in the school tested positive", which after the class shut down for 2 weeks, we don't know how many other kids in the class had it because once the class was shut down, it wasn't required that every student in the class get tested negative before they re-opened the classroom.
So really the only reliable options is to hit it again with a blunt instrument of broad restrictions recommended by the medical practitioners/scientists because a) they worked in the past and b) we don't have the precise data to be better focused in the approach. But I will emphasize my point of "by the medical practitioners/scientists". The recent added shut down measures that Ontario did on Friday (and then back-tracked/updated on the weekend) was not entirely science based. The whole closure of playgrounds was objected to by the science advisory table (where some members threatend to quit because of it) and that decision got reversed. So it can become very frustrating/confusing too because it's hard to know what restrictions are instituted becasue of direct medical/scientific input vs. not.
I'm happy now though that at least some more targeted measures are being made like the announcements today in Peel and Toronto regions that large workplaces will get shut down if they have 5 or more positive cases in a 2 week period as well as working to get more vaccines to those hot-spots (IMO these measures should have been done much sooner). Couple these types of measures with further boosts to vaccination numbers and there is indeed an end in sight IMO.