Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Rock solid Re Newfoundland Offers A Cautionary Tale On New Variants (Feb. 17): In Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Australia and New Zealand, cycles of snap lockdowns and reopening are the new normal. We have read in these pages many voices advocating for a brutal months-long lockdown as the “last” lockdown, whereupon life would return closer to “normal.” This feels like a false promise. With the amount of essential cross-border and interprovincial travel, many cases will constantly escape quarantine. Locking down for each case would mean perpetual lockdown. Vigorous containment, stringent restrictions, mass vaccination and support are essential; eradication is more like utopian wishful thinking.