Unfortunately this is also what the current administration in the US has been saying. That it would have been impossible to predict that pandemic and that no on

Unfortunately this is also what the current administration in the US has been saying. That it would have been impossible to predict that pandemic and that no one could have seen it coming. Despite many warnings and the establishment of a pandemic response team because this was seen coming. (Of course, not specifically COVID-19 at the specific time it did, but there were plenty of warning signs.)