[AlbertCory]

Actually, they're as bad as everyone else at that, e.g, Obamacare website; state of Maine website; lots more.

And then we have, by three or four orders of magnitude, the great Sunk Cost Fallacy of all time, by anyone ever:

Not ending World War One in 1915, 1916, or 1917: "All those lives and treasure we've spent! We have to get something for it."

And so we had the Spanish Flu, which killed more than the combat deaths, and of course, the combat deaths.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu

Not to mention World War Two.