Correct.
Also correct. Pretty much everyone who works in global public health, especially those of us working on disease outbreaks, has been well aware of the likelihood of future outbreaks and pandemics of 'emerging diseases', and monkeypox is on the list of pathogens that people have been worrying about. Mind you, we're worried both about pathogens we know about, like monkeypox, Ebola, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and a bunch of others, and ones we haven't encountered yet, like SARS-CoV-2. Getting serious funding for surveillance and prevention when there isn't an outbreak happening, though, is a challenge, since political systems are not well suited toward addressing that kind of threat. (We have tried, though -- e.g.
this project. I spent a lot of time working on that proposal. Note that you've quoted one of the researchers involved in it above -- Christian Happi.)