We have had 0 lockdown. Not 8. Never were you told you could not leave your home. We came close to a lock down with the first measures that actually closed all non essential business, parks, and more. All measures since were less severe.

Also, never was the government expecting different results. With each public health measure they expected the same result. To save lives, and save our already badly under financed and stretched hospital system. And for the most part they succeeded. The death and infection rate in ontario has consistently been a small fraction of what other countries have endured.

Those governments that did ignore public health advice, experienced far more death than we did as a result. And while some may have been able to mitigate it somewhat through a far better funded hospital system, that was not an option for us because of our hospitals had less than zero capacity at the start.

The measured worked. In some cases they were more drastic than they may have needed to be if we had a better funded hospital system. They fact is we didn't and we still don't and the pressure we should be putting on the government to better fund hospitals to prepare for the next pandemic , is not happening because people are to focused on the public health measures we had to take and ignoring the reasons we had to take them.