Controversial opinion:
COVID was a good thing because it revealed to normies:
-the Marxification of US education
-the horrible safety standards, lack of testing, and potential fraud from vaccine manufacturers
-that the US media will say whatever they're paid or asked by industry or Gov to say (they're just carnival barkers)
-that trillions of our taxes go to corruption instead of benefitting Americans
-that elections are a shit show & those who virtue signal about their security will fight tooth & nail against transparent elections

Addition: "the experts" are often for sale, not very intelligent, and have no idea how their tiny sliver of expertise applies to the world at large