The COVID-19 pandemic

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To be fair, I think it was working pretty well with delta. Omicron is harder because it's much more transmissible and breaks through the vaccine much better. I don't know what the ideal Omicron strategy is apart from keeping it out. It is possible that an actual lockdown would work, but it seems like people here wouldn't go for that.

Many other countries have managed Omicron...but those countries already handled the rest better than us, and actually invested in tools to handle it, and you know, decided to do something about it, instead of just shrugging and protesting that "everyone will get it anyway" as they did for delta before it.

I'm actually not sure of that, aside from by closing the border. Like, countries that suppressed Delta was already a small list. Who do you think is open and has actually controlled Omicron?

I am all for stricter lockdowns, but I'll also admit that even Auckland's most recent 3-month lockdown was starting to exceed popular consent. It was much more locked down than Ontario though. (And I was in Wellington, not Auckland).