[Muromec]

But that's what you do with random events -- create policies to prevent them from happening, lowering the incidence rate and minimizing damage once it occurs. Which is exactly what government and laws are all about.

[FrustratedMonky]

That is a generous reading of the parent comment.

It sounded much more like a common trope, "the do-nothing government just lets things fail, doesn't take action until something fails".