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.