But what would the numbers be without the lockdown? Probably much worse, no?
This is the thing with the lockdown that was imposed.
We had a system in place. Color coordinated according to severity of infection per 100k. I think that when the province decided to throw that system out the window ands lockdown Ottawa anyways, i think they lost the room .
We will never know what the number would have been if we did not lockdown, but the City should have followed the directives and lockdown when it needed to be locked down. If at all. Perhaps, at this time, there would have been a lockdown. But the way it was handled was not consistent with what we were all sold and bought into.
Many holiday dinners, I know for a fact, were planned in restaurants following Christmas where they would be physically distant, but together. There were check and balances. This turned into home gatherings. I know a lot of people who said "screw this, we did everything right, I am going to do whatever I want now" type of thing. A dangerous consequence.
The reality is the numbers coincided with the last day of school, December 18, and look 10 days after and see how the numbers look. I have three kids, and i look like the nervous nelly stepping in and stopping the countless requests they all have received to get together. People just don't want to do what is necessary. Look at the age group that is principally affected. Looks to be the parents of said kids. Of course, the teachers unions are saying this was coming due to trends in numbers before school was out, but i don't interpret the numbers as they do. I see it happening, directly after school finished.
I personally know of a couple cases that were uncomfortably close with kids visiting uncles and aunts. They only went to drop off gifts, apparently.
I don't think the numbers would have been this high, if they just left us alone. We were doing perfectly acceptably fine. And we have already been indoors for sometime now, managing winter and being indoors more. Of course we will never know, but lockouts do not work. It hasn't.