There is an important difference here between “obvious in advance” and “obvious in hindsight”, but your basic point is fair, and the virus example is a good one. Humanity’s current state is indeed so spectacularly incompetent that even the obvious problems might not be solved, depending on how things go.
I would say “Humanity’s current state is so spectacularly incompetent that even the obvious problems with obvious solutions might not be solved”.
If humanity were not spectacularly incompetent, then maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about the obvious problems with obvious solutions. But we would still need to worry about the obvious problems with extremely difficult and non-obvious solutions.
There is an important difference here between “obvious in advance” and “obvious in hindsight”, but your basic point is fair, and the virus example is a good one. Humanity’s current state is indeed so spectacularly incompetent that even the obvious problems might not be solved, depending on how things go.
I would say “Humanity’s current state is so spectacularly incompetent that even the obvious problems with obvious solutions might not be solved”.
If humanity were not spectacularly incompetent, then maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about the obvious problems with obvious solutions. But we would still need to worry about the obvious problems with extremely difficult and non-obvious solutions.