I'm serious, if you were in charge what would you do to protect people from COVID?

NOT by locking down healthy people and NOT by becoming a dictatorship.
Isolate and protect the vulnerable the best as you can possibly do.
Take a closer look at therapies, including experimental ones. Right now, if you catch covid in Canada, you're told to go back home and drink water. That's it.

Other than that, everything was already said by u/Nietzscheese/ , which I can't agree more with:

• This virus is a force of nature and can't be eliminated
• The benefits don't outweigh the costs and we're certainly going to pay dearly these costs
• We can't lockdown forever It's been a year already! We all remember when this was supposed to last 14 days