How about we talk about the actual elephant in the room? China na and its denial of anything serious going on + not sharing information early on which could have prevented a majority of deaths.
In any operational outage, you focus mitigation, then prevention.
We are still in the midst of a global pandemic, and things can still get worse before they get better. Nothing China did or didn't do or lied or didn't lie about a year ago helps deal with OTHER authoritarian governments TODAY contributing to hundreds of thousands of other deaths and potential resurgence with P1.
A LOT of people appear to solve problems via blame. As in if we can just get people to agree that the Chinese people did something BAD then the problem is fixed.
People that work that way are really married to it. And very resistant to rethinking things.
Full disclosure, as an old crusty engineer when I see a small problem that looks like it could become a big intractable one, I reach for the biggest hammer I can get my fingers around.