In a couple more months, it'll still be just a couple of months away. In September it'll still be a couple more months. There will always be a new variant, or a new outbreak, or more worries with the effectiveness of the vaccines or some other reason. The goalposts are always receding into the distance.
Premier Horgan was out there on Monday saying "we're so close now" and "don't you young people screw this up for the rest of us." But nobody actually believes we're close now, and young people are tired of being told to put their lives on hold for the benefit of others, until the magical tomorrow that never arrives. Everything depends on buy-in, and buy-in was always a finite resource, and now it's depleted. Remember those stupid ads the Government of Canada was running during the Superbowl? "just a little longer doing this and we can get back to doing this?" showing all the things people wished they could be doing? Talk about a failure to read the room.
You might get yours by summer, and I might get mine by fall. The young people who are causing the rapid spread of the virus right now might get theirs by 2022, just in time to find out that the vaccines aren't effective enough against new variants to allow for relaxing restrictions, and the cycle will continue.
-k
They have actually been moving the age groups up, everyone over 18 should have their first shot by June as long as the vaccines keep coming. I'm thinking it will be earlier rather than later. The reality is we are in a race against variants and people going out of their way to get infected will just make that a lot more difficult, if not impossible. We were always in this for the long haul whether we like it or not and none of us do.
Look at the bright side, we have several different vaccines with more on the way. We could be sitting here with none, the virus and its variants destroying far more people.