Lockdowns are ineffective

Re.: Christine Pegg’s letter Mild inconvenience (Castanet, Jan. 17)

Mandates and lockdowns are not mild inconveniences.

Many have lost jobs, businesses and their relationships due to these policies. Families have lost family members to suicide and overdoses as a result of constant lockdowns and mandates. They are not good for our society in any way.

Lockdowns and mandates work in a vacuum. But life does not exist in such an environment. They may have made sense in the very beginning when we didn't know what we were dealing with.

Since then, we've learned a lot and we've had years to prepare our hospitals, but instead, our hospitals have less staff than ever. Some of that has to do with bad policies that forced people out of jobs where other solutions existed.

This virus isn't going anywhere. Next year will be the same story with surges in cases and hospitalizations, regardless of how many vaccines and boosters people take.

When do we actually start fixing the real issues, instead of reverting to ineffective lockdowns that alleviate one problem while creating worse problems in the process?

That's not a sustainable strategy, and it's certainly no mild inconvenience for those impacted.

Adam Fischer, West Kelowna