I didn't make the decisions; our government did. I will say that the government took great advice; there was almost sole input from public health and they took advice from the science and the numbers. There was very little wiggle on other reasons to not shut things down or put restrictions in place very quickly. I would say there was rapid, decisive science used with a minimum number of distracting other factors. That seems to be, at least as an outsider, part of the decisiveness that was maintained through the first, second and third waves.
On May 7th, 2021. See this statement in context.