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Let me count the ways.

1. Long state of indecision. For a very long time, as the news from around the world brought images of falling skies, the Finnish government actively avoided making any decisions. G: "we defer to THL". THL: "we defer to government".

2. President had to intervene to get the government off of their asses. How messed up is that?

3. Artificially limiting the supply of ICUs. Of the 300 units in the country, half are earmarked for "not to be used for COVID-19 cases".

4. Completely ignoring the effect of people returning from their holidays. That's 200k potential transmission vectors, not taken into account at all. Until it was too late.

So the people who were supposed to be in charge have shown nothing but incompetence and avoidance of responsibility. The measures that are in place now seem good (quarantining an entire province!), but the handling of the pandemic until very recently was nothing short of disgraceful.