and preventable....

fear ... politics ... tribalism ... restrictions of rights ...

successful science developments of vaccine ... community binding together at first (then fracturing...)

What would have been great is that if those predictable scenarios COULD have been played out on TV in a way BEFORE the pandemic that people DIDN'T respond in all the negative and predictable ways.... that TV could have been a training exercise to help us see "DON'T do X or Y or Z ....."

but, unfortunately, we did all the bad things that most tv scripts predicted we would do....