the roller coaster of life

We all saw the warning sign on the rollercoaster of life:
Not guaranteed to be safe
But we took one look,
and all we saw was happiness, 
so we strapped in.
There were highs,
lows, 
in-betweens, 
and of course,
a big vertical drop
into a bottomless pit.
How did we not notice
the loops, twists, before it
spelled
P A N D E M I C