> many saw a pandemic was due at some point, few saw COVID coming in the six months preceding as very early news came in small fragments from China.

Last years hd a few saying Russia would invade Ukraine (and as many saying it wouldn’t), but of those they thought Ukraine would fold in days and have no support from the west.

Nobody expected Ukraine to successfully repel the invasion.

In 2020 predictions I don’t see any reference to pandemics or other Heath based issues - and covid was already beginning with several cases having being confirmed.

Makes you wonder what minor thing could be known already and about to change the world but completely invisible to us now.