Well in Canada, zero covid was never a goal. The only goal was to keep spread low enough, so that hospitals could cope, and buy some time until vaccines came out.

How could any sane person think zero covid was possible??

Let's say you manage to vaccinate 100% of Canada. Great. Now you .. what? Close the borders forever?

And closing means no truckers, pilots entering??

And on top of that, there is always a resoviour in the wild...

The news literally makes stuff up these days. What sane government would think covid would vanish?

Quebec's current plan is to let it flow through the population now. If you aren't vaccinated, that's on you. If you are, well, we're done with lockdowns. We've done all we can.

And so kids now wear no masks on school.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/end-of-mask-mand...

Of course, no one is really puzzled, the news needs a story.

There isn't a lot of information on how the vaccines impact the contagion rates, and people are really afraid of numbers growing so quickly that ICUs go from mostly empty into overflowing again without time to react.

A lot of people sick but well enough that they don't need a hospital means a lot of people possibly transmitting the disease.

There is a point on the other extreme too, in that the people that get into an ICU overwhelmingly refused to vaccinate, and it isn't fair to disrupt the entire society because of them. But well, the pandemics is full of unfair situations, and refusing treatment to people with unrelated diseases because ICUs are full isn't fair either. Everybody is in a crazy game of balancing things the best possible way without full information.

It depends on the populations. School, colder weather and the resumption of winter sports like basketball have contributed to a spike in many areas. Many are breakthrough cases.

My son’s school, which has had 2 cases through early November, had 20% of the student body positive.