https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor IMHO they simply (for one reason or the other, but not intentionally/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor IMHO they simply (for one reason or the other, but not intentionally/with malice) underestimated the seriousness of the problem at hand and thought that they would have created panic/economy disasters/etc.. The issue seems to me that even now quite a few governments are failing to introduce adequate measures to stop the spread before the number of cases increases too much.