Well said; truly, there will always be the vaccine-hesitant groups and that’s completely fine. Everyone has a right to decide whether they want the shots or not. Thankfully, Canada has a very low proportion of these kind of people in comparison to other countries. Where i reside, the vaccines are available and easy to access but the majority of people don’t want it and we are actually doing very fine.If the solution to keep deaths down is through vaccines (which, it is) then eventually it comes down to what an individual thinks; since you can't quite forcefully vaccinate them. Scratching this matter more will only cause bleeding, and I'm talking about a social bleeding. As we saw, there's a certain percentage of people who want to get vaccinated and who just don't want to. This may very well mean that in some places, covid will never be tamed. Still, we will see that it is not feasible for (western/democratic) governments to base their plans on things which are, and should be, in sole decision of individuals.
One exception would be maybe North Korea. The law might say either you get vaccinated or executed, well, not very feasible...
In short, 2021 will be the last year of "pandemic politics" because it's not feasible anymore.
The aim of vaccines is to reduce the health and economic burdens on hospitals while decreasing the chances of death drastically. So far, these objectives are being met for all variants of the virus. This is really commendable. Alberta recently reported that 99% of patients in hospitals that are down with Covid are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated