@ Karlos
You might be thinking of redundancy, in which case the word is tautology.
But: I don't think the guy was making a statement based only on time, but rather the likelihood of the pandemic being real in the future because of the lack of preventative/containment measures.
It's kind of like saying: "The Abu Graibh atrocities have brought us closer to the next act of terrorism than we have ever been before"
