

No one listened before and covid happened, it’s pretty obvious at this point that it will be the same.
With the exception that covid was relatively mild, in comparison to what it could have been (and to what will definitely happen in a relatively near future)



Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but believing with an absence of evidence is utterly absurd.
I don’t know what conspiracy theory dark hole you fell in, but you definitely need some scientific method and skepticism.