does make me laugh how people would know exactly what to do and how to manage a event that has never happened in human history and how they would have made every choice as the correct one and controlled a virus, people and economy all at the same time!
This event has never happened before, sure we have had viruses and pandemics but not in the modern world with the ease of transport, mobility, news and travel at every level of most peoples lives and the ease with which people are free to roam and travel and the silly amounts of real and fake news/information that people have access to.
none of us could have done it any better nor do we know the impact of having lockdowns v non lockdowns or how to manage the economy and everything else that has had a action and reaction or a impact and a sub impact.
There is no AI or Machine learning that could have predicted this, the fact it has happened will mean that in the future there should be much better plans/predictions/actions/knowledge but lets stop kidding ourselves saying if XYZ had happened we would be XYZ better/worse off, none of us know as it didnt happen and the associated impacts would not be known.
All of the above it totally logical! the only thing i have learned from this is that you cannot rely on humans using common sense and rational thought! that is totally clear