> There is really no excuse for this happening in Europe. There was ample warning and no, not just from China. The math was very clear by early/mid February.

It might be worth revisiting top comments on HN threads relating to Covid19 in the past few weeks. Quite telling how much the 'know-it-all' folks actually know about the real world - makes you even more afraid that these are the same people who run countries and have an outsized influence in the public sphere.