It's totally a meme!

For me, "This tragedy could have been avoided, with X" is a meme older than the internet --- but when I Googled it out of curiosity, most of what came up were, like, actual preventable tragedies. I don't know what gives here.

("Don't let this happen to you" would be a variation, I guess, and the old "Erasers commercial" bits on Square 1 TV enter into it somehow...)