I love the way an event like this brings out the I was right all along brigade. Who cares! Bully for you.
Its easy for people to sit back and criticise when they don't have to step up and make the hard decisions. They don't get much harder than this.
With hind sight it was a very expensive over-reaction but in the future hopefully the data collected (and still being collected!!) and lessons learnt from the way the whole "crisis" was handled will prove invaluable.
Its like an aircraft accident. So many crucial lessons are taken from a disastrous event.