I think it's easy to criticize their leadership from the outside, but I would assume that they make their decisions with great care, and aren't going to throw a

I think it's easy to criticize their leadership from the outside, but I would assume that they make their decisions with great care, and aren't going to throw around "pandemic" or other words easily. If they do that, people stop listening. It's akin to people not caring about a major hurricane barreling towards them because they've heard the doomsday scenarios before and nothing has happened. They have to be careful, and that they were.