I'd usually be pretty forgiving especially when there is a high degree of novelty.
Maybe this particular vaccine is novel and that benefit of the doubt should be extended in this case, I'm not sure though.
It's also possible this is common variation but we never hear about it.
An engineer who you pay $200,000.00/yr in salary pushes code to prod which brings your totally unique SaaS product down. Accounting says the incident cost $2,000,000.00.
Do you:
A) Fire the engineer on the spot.
B) Conduct a thorough investigation of your testing and deployment practices and implement changes to avoid such a mistake in the future.
Was the engineer wilfully negligent of checks and balances put in place. Was he wilfully negligent because of undue pressure to deliver more in the same time and without any system changes. Did his mother recently die and he couldn't take time off to grieve properly.
There are many aspects that make up the analysis of a failure in quality, and that is the job of leadership.
C) Fire the engineer's manager.
D) Resign.
What i was trying to imply is that there's something to be reviewed here and it's leaderships responsibility to do so.
I'm feeling that potentially with covid and all it's a little too emotive and the whole comment was misplaced and doomed to degenerate into a slinging match.
Also there is a lack of detailed knowledge that precludes me from making more detailed statements.