Negotiation is certainly possible. So, one might lay additional covid deaths at the step of a government which failed to negotiate.
Even if it isn’t difficult to cast blame at one’s government, this doesn’t mean much for the people who have died. It also seems unlikely that governments are going to feel much additional pressure from deaths for which they bear only indirect responsibility.
I don’t have any developed opinion on the original post, but I did want to take mild issue with the idea of thinking about deaths as a bargaining tool. (I’m sure you meant for this to be a neutral/​factual point about negotiating, but it’s hard for me to shake off the devastating impact of additional deaths.)
Even if it isn’t difficult to cast blame at one’s government, this doesn’t mean much for the people who have died. It also seems unlikely that governments are going to feel much additional pressure from deaths for which they bear only indirect responsibility.
I don’t have any developed opinion on the original post, but I did want to take mild issue with the idea of thinking about deaths as a bargaining tool. (I’m sure you meant for this to be a neutral/​factual point about negotiating, but it’s hard for me to shake off the devastating impact of additional deaths.)