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That was in a very different scenario: the beginning of the pandemics with a much more dangerous variant of the virus, and nobody vaccinated.

So I don't think that what the Nordics attempted is applicable at current situation

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You misunderstand me. I'm talking about right now. In the beginning the plan was to squash case counts and since border crossing was limited heavily it was feasible. Ever since vaccine uptake reached high levels the case counts were not indicative of societal danger due to vaccines decreasing the amount of people ending up there per case.

The raw number of hospitalised is still high though due to the 10x increase in daily cases due to the new variant (delta was already doing a good job) and health centres and hospitals are filled to the brim with people who are feeling unwell enough that they use health care resources.

There’s still enough unvaccinated for the weaker strains to be a problem. Plus delta is still out there.

For which country are you talking about? The picture is different in different countries.

In my opinion countries who reached 80% of vaccinated people should remove all the restrictions, but again, this is just my opinion, and I don't have any decisional power over it.

Delta is nearly extinct.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...

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