There is no reason why a pandemic should be of any specific duration. Again, that's reality. The virus continues to mutate, and therefore, the vaccines that we thought would put an end to it are less effective than anticipated. While people stick their heads in the sand, hundreds die every day in North America, and caring for the thousands who are hospitalized right here in Canada continues to strain our health resources. We should have at least kept the mask mandate.
There is a challenge with that...... beyond the obvious.
In reality, based on current published data, Canada has experienced less than 0.1% excess deaths over the course of the pandemic. That's less than 0.04% over the course of any given year.
That simply can't justify perpetual 'crisis management'; in any society.
Source:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/...ive-per-100k-economist?tab=chart&country=~CAN
We're currently running at 2 deaths, per day, Canada wide. As
@Bayer noted, the daily average is 32 over that period, I think the wording on the data chart is a bit confusing, but I digress, and stand corrected.
As measured against this chart, showing Covid as the #3 cause of death in the year 2020:
Credit noted above
One would assess that Covid is no longer considered a
top 10 cause of death in Canada. * As per the correction I made above, Covid would be the #6 cause of death in Canada at annualized rates, based on the most recent totals.
That's not to suggest one should be ignorant of the risks, nor inconsiderate to others; but if one is going to take a proportionate response to risk, based on the data, we would
justify a number of crisis-level actions in regards to issues other than Covid.
I find it unlikely the public has an appetite for that level of interventionism.