My litmus test for whether someone is worth talking to about this is whether they need to vilify any particular institution or individual.

It's intellectually nasty and petty to spend more effort on pointing fingers than working through systemic failures and fixes.

As you said, everyone on all sides was in the wrong plenty of times.

And about what you'd expect! Having to make big calls on a novel situation with uncertain science. Nobody lucks into 100% correctness.