Their argument is that it's not the governments just randomly deciding to keep mandates, but that the mandates continue because covid is still spreading a lot. They're sarcastically saying that "Mr Covid," ie the virus itself, is determining when mandates may be lifted by covid getting to the point it's not spreading as much.
Their argument is that it's not the governments just randomly deciding to keep mandates, but that the mandates continue because covid is still spreading a lot. They're sarcastically saying that "Mr Covid," ie the virus itself, is determining when mandates may be lifted by covid getting to the point it's not spreading as much.