“COVID” taught me that the vast majority of people are feckless, fearful, selfish, ignorant, gullible, dangerous retards. It showed me how much of a threat the majority of people are to freedom, and how easily they can be manipulated into supporting the violation of other people’s rights.
Everything I learned had been said by Dr. Zaius in “Planet of the Apes”.
I think the author has it a bit backwards. The division that already existed between those dependent on government and those with a healthy distrust of it was made just as apparent as the other preexisting divisions she mentions.
The people who learned were the rioters. They learned that two sets of rules existed and they did not have to act like humans.
Unfortunately, a large number here on FR was part of the COVIDiots!