Anyone with a deep interest in science knew that some "pandemic" was coming. We've seen it before, and therefore knew it was possible, and we've had scientists warning us for ages now that the more we invade and destroy the natural systems of the planet that sustain us, the more chance there is that we end up releasing or coming in contact with some new (novel) viruses and diseases we've not seen before. Humanity chose the "business as usual" approach to all warnings we were given by those in a position to know something about it, and now we're all paying the price of that willful ignorance.
FYI "the author also believes that, "it is difficult to escape the inference that powerful people and organizations have engineered this pandemic with deadly intent," believing that Bill Gates' TED talk indicated that he knew that COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was coming. He thinks that the pandemic was planned to profit the pharmaceutical industry, and that vaccines are sometimes maliciously manufactured to induce infertility." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27794425