There seems to be a sudden rush to accelerate environmental targets which were always just far enough away to seem optimistic but are suddenly five to ten years...
Biden said it himself that he wanted America to stop using oil by 2025
The US election is the perfect opportunity to get the largest economy in line, but again they haven't counted on Trumps support, (you'd have thought they would have learnt four years ago) and whether his legal challenges are successful or not, it should expose enough to make people stop and think.
And suddenly Boris wants local nuclear plants across the country and the end of new ICE cars has been bought forward to 2030. Our government started the year optimistically but have gradually become more socialist as the year has gone on... Nothing has really impacted the spread of Covid, yet here we are pretending the shutting everything down is a reasonable thing to do whilst draining the kitty. Boris looks like someone who has been coerced into towing the line of some New World Order and is trying to do so without letting on... You can see the strain in his face.
Cheaply available mass air travel has been decimated in the developed world.
And if you look at who has benefited, it's much the same people who have attended Bloombergs Economic Forum. Which looks alot like the financial wing of the World Economic Forum.
There's probably a couple of hundred people in charge of everything and most are run private corporations and they clearly own several government leaders.
That's not to say that governments knew ahead of time, as clearly the initial impact was devastating enough to catch everyone off guard, but as the year has gone on treatments have vastly improved and a selection of vaccines are imminent so whilst the cases keep increasing, the relative mortality rate is actually falling.