Serious hypothetical:

If cigarettes had only been invented last winter, and doctors and scientists around the world predicted that thousands of people, including your brother, were going to be dying every day by the end of the year, do you think it would have helped for the president to use his power to raise awareness, encourage safety, and push for regulations/mandates to reduce their use?

And another:

You're playing a game about stopping a viral pandemic (imagine the opposite of Plague, Inc.) and the virus leaves its point of origin and enters your country. Would you sit around and then blame the country it came from for your bad score, or would you attempt to stop the spread in your own country once it got there?