If time travel was possible this pandemic was either caused by it, or it could not be prevented. Simply because we have this pandemic now. The future might have been able to stop it, but in that case the pandemic was clearly needed for something.
Many bad things that can be prevented, aren't. Mostly because of the effort required.
There is no reason to assume that a future with time travel can be bothered to make lives better for people who are by then long dead. Good luck getting funding for such a project.
Or, time travel is possible but sufficiently difficult it's invented so far in the future a random century now is viewed like we'd view the time of the dinosaurs. Covid-19 will almost certainly not be a concern for whatever descendant of humanity finally solves time travel 10 million years from now. I'd also imagine rules for mucking about with the timeline being pretty strict.
Do you suffer painful illumination?
-- Isaac Newton, "Optics"
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If time travel was possible this pandemic was either caused by it, or it could not be prevented. Simply because we have this pandemic now. The future might have been able to stop it, but in that case the pandemic was clearly needed for something.
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Many bad things that can be prevented, aren't. Mostly because of the effort required.
There is no reason to assume that a future with time travel can be bothered to make lives better for people who are by then long dead. Good luck getting funding for such a project.
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Unintended consequences.
Perhaps the pandemic killed a future Hitler.
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