You are right Covid has made many people cowards and/or authoritarians who are scared of a person saying "good-day," to them while unmasked in the open air, so much so they cross the street or scream at them to "WEAR A ******* MASK!" And then have a breakdown.
It has also made them docile and compliant to every silly rule the government comes out with that switches in the wind without dissent. "THE GOVERNMENT SAYS/ THE SCIENCE SAYS DO IT COMPLY!!! I'M COMPLYING, YOU HAVE TO COMPLY"
It has also made them watch the governments daily updates to see what they are allowed to do and what they can scream at other people for not doing.
It has also made them think that if they obey their totalitarian government that has restricted their freedoms for a virus so deadly you don't know you have it unless you are tested and only kills sick old people over the life expectancy age, they will get their freedom back. And the people preventing them from doing it are those fighting against the totalitarian governments regulations.
It has also made them take untested gene therapy to go on holiday, or prove they are wise and moral for believing the government and their "SCIENCE."
It has also made them act like a bunch of religious fanatics who believe the SCIENCE and their priests and want to silence the heritics, while they wear religious garbs TWO MASKS to prove they are super woke like the NIQUAB to prove you are Ultra Islamic and shame those who go with just the Hijab or one mask or bare faced. If you don't wear a face covering in Islam as a woman you get abuse from the believers, the same abuse you would get now from the newly religious Covid Maskers. And of course the Vaxxers just take the vaxx based on their blind faith their MEDIA PERMITTED science priests know better and they are not allowed to question their authority, the same as taking communion from a priest, at least the communion though doesn't have the chance to **** up your genetic code.
Gotta say these "I love science," freaks seem very ill informed about science, even less so than Christians are. And the same "I love science guys," who also call themselves "liberal," seem to be awfully authoritarian.
So Covid has had far worse effects than contributing to the deaths of sick and old people, just like pneumonia does.
And all it took was the media and government to make people scared and people were suckers for it and in many cases loved it. Some loved their victim status and many others love their nazi power to enforce government restrictions on other people.