Predicting a likely future outcome doesn't require psychic abilities. A pandemic has been forecast since the previous pandemic. Mother nature is constantly mutating her viruses, looking for the right combination to check and balance the populations of earth's inhabitants.
The density of human life in urban centers makes mankind extremely vulnerable to respiratory contagions, and infectious disease experts have been warning of an outbreak for many years. But, who pays attention? Certainly not politicians and public officials responnsible
for public health and safety. They spent the budget on salaries and travel expenses, and there is no PPE in the cupboard.
Back in 500 BC, Pythagoras declared that the earth was round. 2520 years later, people flock to international flat earth conventions. They are "waking up" to the fact that science is too complicated for them.
Over the 84 generations since Pythagoras, the average individual seems to have become less intelligent. The Kruger-Dunning effect says that unintelligent people lack the intelligence to recognize their stupidity.
You can bundle up all the conspirators, the anti-vaxxers, the flat earthers, the 2A crowd, etc., and bundle them into a political entity and you have your explanation
for the current political climate in the United States. Lack of intelligence and the inability to recognize one's own shortcomings, leads to insecurity and the
willingness to adopt unfounded beliefs, while accusing someone else of controlling you through their hidden agenda.
And none of this means your government doesn't lie to you, because they do. My advice is to have faith, but don't place it in Jim Jones, or Alex Jones.
Put it in the descendants of Pythagoras, because Intelligence is a hereditary trait.