I agree. Our government didn't take any apparent action up to this point, except express platitudes of "business as usual".
Why not overreact early and buy some time to get sorted? How do people whose jobs it is to deal with these things go from, "we're fine" to "close everything down" in a matter of days? We've had months to get ready for this.
Trudeau has even stated that he thinks each province should be acting on that since they're competent wrt healthcare. Borders are under his control, yet weren't seen as a particularly pressing issue as I highly doubt (as we have, I believe, clearly seen) that this was even on his daily agenda before a few days ago. He went from 0 to 100 in a day. Just yesterday he was serving the same old same old.
There were a bunch of statements made by some of his ministers on Twitter. Overall bad handling of what should have been a no-brainer. Premier Legault had to publically call Trudeau out multiple times on his inaction. That kind of thing shouldn't happen.