Wow, I am surprised that you actually think that our Western tyrants are trying to minimize damage.
Right now, many Canadians in certain localities are going though significant hardships because a bunch of truckers and other freedom-loving Canadians peacefully protest mandates attempting them to get medical treatments against their own free will.
The damage to everyone would be minimized if Trudeau simply stopped his administration's tyrannical mandates, don't you think? The truckers would be happy, and all of the congestion and honking in the cities would stop immediately.
A similar situation exists in the US, although we don't really have organized protests. We just have supply issues, out of control inflation, businesses losing money from unavailable products, and lots of people either fired or threatened to be fired.
All of this damage caused with the goal of getting more people vaccinated with vaccines that don't not work - Trudeau was boosted and allegedly recently had COVID.
Regards,
Jim