No, it's not that easy to forget and what happened at the past can serve as a lesson to those who didn't take COVID-19 seriously. Imagine, a simple solution will save us all back then and now we are suffering from that mistake. Actually, It can happen again since there's another plague spreading around the world so by remembering the mistakes in the past, we can solve it early and be competent handling such situations like this. No one expected? When the time it spreads in Wuhan, we already watched the news and other videos from WHO or World Health Organization that explains how dangerous is COVID-19, Are we really not expected it to be too dangerous or the higher-ups are just confident that they are strong and can handle the situation? It's not the first time for this kind of pandemic, we already experienced the H1N1 virus back then and many died, travel ban is one of the easiest and risk-free solution we could implement.
I'm not saying forgetting and not learning, of course, we need to learn from our past mistakes but we need to move on as it already happenned.
We have to face the current situation but the solution is not to lock down our country as it will affect the economy, no jobs created and no business operation is tantamount to stopping from living.
Why Vegas are allowed to resume the casinos is because they are granted by the government, and we can all agree that the government knows and understands the risk of the virus, but the risk of the economy to collapse is more serious that might affect everyone of us.
Pick the a poison in short, and the government has already picked.