Thank you very much for that question.
I have to take a breath, because I have a lot of professional thoughts about this, but I also have a lot of personal thoughts about this.
Children were at the absolute lowest risk of impact from the disease, yet they were the ones who suffered the most. We wrote an evidence-based letter back in February 2021 to say that children should be returning to sports, that they were safe to do so and that we were very much supportive of kids being in school and doing their sports. Still, I saw in many jurisdictions that kids were limited.
This can never happen again. These restrictions and mitigations, we see now—parents will tell us; youth will tell us and the evidence is telling us—were related to isolation, lack of control, and an inability to meet their developmental milestones. With that, I would say this can never happen in this way again.
We can't undo what's happened, but going forward, I hope we use the evidence from families, from youth and from the evidence in the literature to never have these lockdowns again.