I think its the opposite. People are weighting the events of 2020 far too lightly.
The American identity is under siege... being told where you can and can't go, and under what conditions (mask / no mask), is totally alien to an American, and I don't know why it would shock anyone, anywhere, that understands even the slightest bit about our culture to hear this.
And that's just one small aspect of the cultural component of this pandemic.
No... 2020 is going to change the entire world, or more accurately, COVID-19.
EDIT: Oh yeah, Morgan Stanley is already issuing guidance that 2021 is going to be a commercial real estate bloodbath, lol, so, you know... there's that.
Not to mention the huge influx of people into flyover states once they realize New York is only a nice place to be if you can actually go out and do shit. If you can't do any of the shit that New York is known for, why would you live there?