I think it is complicated and I think, as several people have said, we will perhaps not know how complicated until this is all over. Obviously there wasn't enough preparedness in spite of what we saw in the SARS Commission report, which did say we should stockpile for a future pandemic. Although it has to be said that in all the SARS reports, the emphasis was on hospitals, and that has been one of the problems. Not only did we not have enough and the Public Health Agency didn't stockpile enough, but when that equipment was available, it went first to hospitals.
On May 13th, 2020. See this statement in context.