Now, the point we made at the time was we started this back in March 2020, and the Government's strategy—in so far as it can be determined—on COVID-19 was to buy time; that is, to put boundaries up around the country and to lock down parts of the economy and to, basically, encircle the country with a very strict border control with enormous economic cost, and to do that so that we could vaccinate the population when vaccines became available and prepare our health system to respond to the inevitable subsequent arrival of COVID in New Zealand, which would be mollified by high levels of vaccination. 