Covid 19 is 36th on the pandemic severity list, so we should have been able to handle it based on previous experience. However, it has been massaged by the Pharma companies and the banking elite to boost their wealth transfer and eugenics projects. The real pandemics are toxic debt, insulin resistance, globalisation, and central banking fraud.
We - western governments - should certainly have handled it better. Particularly given the advance warning we had watching the situation escalate in China. Instead governments didn't want the comparatively small economic hit of quarantining new entrants to keep the country CV19-free. They gambled on this thing fading out before it hit Europe, as we saw with SARS and MERS. Of course this time it was different. It swept into Europe and we had the much larger economic hit of months of lockdown, coupled with - more importantly - thousands of avoidable deaths. Also a lot of the planning was based around a flu-like pandemic. CV19 as a novel virus was obviously a different category, as with no pre-existing immunity there was nothing to stop it sweeping rapidly through the populace. A reason for the failure of planning is likely the ludicrous short-termism that is endemic in modern politics. If it's not a problem right now, it can 'safely' be kicked down the road for the next administration to sort out.
Agree on the pandemics of debt, globalisation and banking though.
Fusion will solve all our problems. With clean unlimited energy we have a chance to save our biosphere!
I'm a big fan of fusion, and hopefully we will get there eventually, although the joke is famously that fusion is always 30 years away.
In the shorter term we may be more likely to see a switch to renewables as the production costs drop below that of fossil-fuel-based power.
Given the speed with which climate change is accelerating, we may not have sufficient time to wait for commercial fusion to resolve our problems. A 'green recovery' from the effects of CV19 is the obvious answer, which we've heard recommended a number of times. Unfortunately it seems - in the UK at least - the government will only pay lip-service to the idea.