I believe the next pandemic response after this one should better take into the sentiment that there is sometimes no good answer to viral outbreaks that does no

I believe the next pandemic response after this one should better take into the sentiment that there is sometimes no good answer to viral outbreaks that does not tank the economy. This outbreak is a litmus test for the competency of many world leaderships. It's a sad fact that it takes a death toll in the course of a few months to cause it, but that's reality. Look at how wrong some very powerful people were in addressing the scale of the crisis. There is still a lot of unfounded optimism going around. This could potentially be highly damaging to their credibility. Maybe we will learn to be more pessimistic when it counts next time, prioritizing reality over individual liberty. Like other natural phenomena, viruses have no qualms about diplomatic red tape, the efficiency of medical supply manufacture, or personal belief. They will keep infecting regardless. What happens when another outbreak occurs, more deadly and/or transmissable than this one, when notions of social distancing become even less effective, and self-isolation is actually the only viable option to prevent mass deaths? Will our best-case manufacturing rate always be able to outstrip the infection rate enough, and if not how would we respond? There will probably still be many people that hang on to the belief that something can be done to save the economic structures underlying society, in the face of reality. Given even more dangerous diseases, at what point does this become false? I'm not hopeful that economic measures will always be able to solve economic crises without an economic cause, because nature doesn't care about economic models. If the only solution to prevent societal collapse in the future would be mandatory self-quarantine, regardless of whether or not we'd know this, will world leaders ever be prepared to make that call, and swiftly? This outbreak will probably not lead to the collapse of humanity in general. But with the mindset we currently have of never reacting until it's too late, which outbreak will become the one where we finally run out of options? I sincerely hope enough of the world has embedded this into their minds and will spread this memory to future generations, and be prepared, to be in time for the next, more severe crisis.