So, the short story here would be: EU proposed to help & coordinate action but individual governments failed to acknowledge/assess how unprepared they were (goi

So, the short story here would be: EU proposed to help & coordinate action but individual governments failed to acknowledge/assess how unprepared they were (going to be), as they did not assess the threat properly. And their joint reports provided a false sense of security to the whole. That there's a deep coordination/collaboration failure here is clear. But how could several many governments/states all assess that much wrongly on their own capacity to face the epidemics?