Before the 30s, when the stock market crash the government didn't involve itself as much, and things bounced back to normal. Then they flipped the switch and decided on mass government spending and interference and a result made things worse for a decade.

Likewise they used to leave pandemics alone and they went away, but changed their mind now to favor lockdowns and over the top government influence. Basically history repeating itself in a way. What will the history books say when this is done? Much like the New Deal revisionist history "The lockdowns saved everyone from a much worse pandemic" "The lockdowns are why the pandemic ended"