Thank you.
I think shortages were probably part of the thinking, and that's the wrong kind of thinking.
For example, if you run out of a certain antibiotic, you don't say that the disease has gone away. You might find an alternative type of antibiotic so that you can keep treating that disease. The same thing happened here in Ontario. The ONA brought a court case in which a medical expert said that yes, they went away from a precautionary approach because of shortages.
That is just unconscionable. If you have a shortage, you find a substitute or you find another way, but you keep protecting workers. You don't lie to people about what the science says.