Was the Scientific Community Catched Unaware of the Complexity of Viruses?

Is it your impression that the scientific community was kind of caught unaware that a virus could come out of nowhere and would be able to mutate? So quickly and so successfully against faccines, or would they trick the immune system in ways that we didn't anticipate. I think there should have been some cautionary discussion around this - i sadoke,. We now know that the vaccine doesn't recognize the whole spike protein. It recognizes what are called eight epitopes. The typical person will have 100 million viruses produced during a typ infection. If you do anything to put pressure, selection, selective pressure, in that patient, the virus can respond very quickly because an so this is where the concept