The famous Fermi Paradox is neither a paradox nor is / was it Fermi's.
It is merely a question. Fermi was not the first to ask it. It had been asked for a hundred years before he famously asked it.

There are numerous possible answers to it but a new one has recently been created, the Aestivation Hypothesis.
https://www.universetoday.com/147161...on-hypothesis/

Psaw, what do you reckon?