Mick, so who do you think should have taken a proactive stand or initiative to stop or block this deadly virus from spreading throughout their given populations ?
Remember everyone in North America at the first outbreak saw what happened in those certain European countries where hordes of people were striving to get to a hospital, some crawling on their knees and then saw the semi trailers at back starting to fill up with dead people ..
From those images political leaders knew then they had to take some kind of a proactive initiative to protect their populations.
Some countries did things correctly and are now are standing in pretty good shape, New Zealand, Israel to name a couple.
Some countries didn't do so well due to obstruction of information from the scientific community (specialists in virology), and political indifference, they are now experiencing extenuating problems.
One country comes to mind, its first name starts with a United ....... .