Dr. Tomás Ryan:

I thank the committee for an inclusive discussion, which we need more of as a country. We need to move from a reactive way of dealing with the virus to a long-term realistic proactive strategy and that needs a lot of public discussion, and inclusiveness. A lot of the discussion that we have had in this country has been health versus the economy.

What we really mean is we are discussing 2019 versus 2020. We need to accept that the world of 2019 is not coming back to us anytime soon. We need to face this, put all the different choices on the table, compare the outcomes of each one side by side, and see what each strategic option would really be like for us to live with. Then we can look at what option we as a society want to choose.