Malta is about at 90%, yet the government is introducing more mandates to the chagrin of residents[0]. There’s been maybe ~three deaths in the entire country over the past couple of weeks; COVID hasn’t even been in the top 5 causes of death for a long time. Yet, you’ll now risk being fined €100 if you’re outside walking by yourself without a mask (of course smoking in restaurants and going to nightclubs is allowed, because that makes freaking sense).

Malta was even touting quite a bit about being the first European country to reach herd immunity..back in May.

In my opinion, anyone who believes continued restrictions have been about anything other than political theatre and positioning are utterly delusional.

0: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/this-latest-masks-man...