Let me clarify. You can follow a scientific approach, and you can follow Science the ritual. When uncertainty goes up and time is of the essence, the latter is

Let me clarify. You can follow a scientific approach, and you can follow Science the ritual. When uncertainty goes up and time is of the essence, the latter is to a large degree subjected to the limitations and blind spots I highlighted. The former might not, if you adapt it to the current limitations. I am a scientist, by the way. What I mean by strong leadership is an intelligent leader that can quickly review evidence from multiple disparate fields and experts (scientists among them) and choose a good approach that takes all available constraints and uncertainties into account. The way a skilled military commander would do. In particular, such a leader does not focus exclusively on a single metric or concern, unless this is warranted by the situation. But that would be an exceptional circumstance in an exceptional situation. You may think that the focus on reducing death rates is focusing on a single metric to the exclusion of everything else, but this is not the case. There are plenty of exceptions to this rule being made in every country with a lockdown. Critical infrastructure, economics, mental health, healthcare that's unrelated to Covid19 and so on.