To be fair, alot of political philosophy had no real framework to deal with a pandemic. Liberal globalism advocated for keeping borders open no matter the cost

To be fair, alot of political philosophy had no real framework to deal with a pandemic. Liberal globalism advocated for keeping borders open no matter the cost and against any restrictions of social life at the beginning. The progressive Left miss-identified quarantine for all entering the country as political scare-mongering against foreigners. The right is still embarrassing itself on a daily basis, regarding the pandemic. Most of the elderly politicians in all sorts of countries, seem to be entirely unable to adapt to new situations, outside of their life-experienced frame of reference. All they have is the fixated-idea to tunnel through "back to normal times". The International Institutions were revealed to be underfunded, thus easily subverted and mostly interested in turning the first world into a fortress as protective measures instead of helping. Government policies for all types & forms of government meandered and flailed. It seems after several generations since the last pandemic, the experience and institutional knowledge had been wiped out to deal with it. I have no solution for this, but it seems that while theoretical knowledge remains, a correct response can not be inoculated with just that. I honestly doubt that even with the Obama Playbook around and in use, the outcome would have been much different. The measures would have been taken half-assed and the actions crippled by cost- and corner-cutting. Those with the most pandemic experience fared pretty well at the start (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore mostly due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbrea... ) - but even within these societies the nature of the beast was largely ignored by sub-cultures (religious or otherwise). It seems that some things, we can only learn and remember, by suffering through it. I hope, that this does not also is the case for imperialistic induced world wars.