@BlackAzizAnansi I think partly yes.
But the pandemic has caused what I theorize is mass PTSD. (For what the anecdote is worth, my therapist agrees with me.) One of the results is that the inability to think critically has been highlighted in many people who are traumatized enough that they can't mask their throughtlessness anymore.
In so many ways, COVID hasn't *caused* a crisis. It has merely thrown into stark relief the crisis we were already in.