Frankly, governments have done the world a disservice by speaking before they really had all the information at the start of the pandemic.
They were doing the best they could to manage a crisis that it was their job to manage in an unprecedented situation. If people expected them to have perfect answers and solutions, they had unrealistic expectations.
Yeah, I don't get this "lost trust" line, that's like a military commander telling his soldiers to go left, then when gunfire comes from the left, tells them to go right, but the soldiers object to his new order and lose confidence in him because he already said go left.
Their best wasn’t very good. First thing is shut down flights from China. I mean it is a no brainier and I distinctly remember thinking wtf as we all waited and twiddled our thumbs because WHO said it wasn’t a pandemic yet. Yes we know it’s not a pandemic yet which happens to be the optimum time to act decisively so it doesn’t become one. Inexcusable.
Yes, I couldn't get it either. The whole world was watching China in horror fight with the virus and at the same time the planes traveled easily to and from China for a long time as if nothing was happening. As if someone really wanted to invite the inevitable.
They were doing the best they could to manage a crisis that it was their job to manage in an unprecedented situation. If people expected them to have perfect answers and solutions, they had unrealistic expectations.