>>11760548Only if it is their paid and voluntarily accepted duty to predict said thing, and they failed to uphold their duty of care to such an extent that a "reasonable person" would deem it to be negligence or dereliction of duty.
A more interesting question would be "should they be punished for negligence when the outcome was, incidentally, not as catastrophic as it COULD have been?". I pose this question to highlight the failures of almost all governments to react to what places like 4chan were already freaking out about (COVID19) in late January.
Obviously it turned out to be a fucking nothing-burger, but they waited until after a reasonable time to react to a potentially deadly pandemic to implement any measures, and then escalated them radically after we started to realize it had under 0.5% kill rate, and mainly popped aging diabetics, people with heart and lung diseases (TB, anyone..?) as well as the elderly and otherwise infirm.
Accountability is a very important topic in this day and age.
