[I am afraid you are right. What is coming is not beyond what we imagine, it is beyond what we currently can imagine.]
There was a significant shut-down in 2008. Ships idled in the Indian Ocean (parked there). Commercial airliners; maybe freighters, parked in the desert.
Along came Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama. And the idiots cheered. Many of them still do.
And things have gotten steadily worse in the USA since then.
I wish it weren’t true; there’s just no avoiding the reality of it all.
Before Covid the US was in a slow decline.
Covid sped up the decline massively.