Ask HN: What strong belief of yours has changed since the pandemic started?

I live in Toronto, which has been a super hot real estate market for the last decade. I was almost certain that prices would tank in the next financial crisis. Was in the market to buy for 18 months. Bought my first property early 2020. When covid hit, I was certain I bought at the peak, and that I was in for the biggest financial hit of my life. Turns out the federal government and big banks would bail out land owners at any cost, through emergency relief money and mortgage payment deferrals. The real estate market is now booming again with almost everything listed receiving multiple offers.

- Any faith I had in the US federal government has completely crumbled.

- Much faith in state government has crumbled.

- The notion that facts, evidence, and science will ultimately win out with the American people. People seem to be largely-meme and social media driven -- on both sides of the political aisle. You could utilize such propaganda to reverse their views in a matter of hours.

- The notion that the American people will hold strong to their beliefs. Which is not true in the least. They are easily swayed. Again, this is on both sides of the political aisle.

Eg. right-wing-leaning preppers stocking gas masks and N95 masks for a theoretical pandemic and then not wearing them for an actual pandemic because "fake news".

- And something positive? At the local level, Americans seem to be rising to the occasion and helping each other out. There's not much dead weight.

School choice and school vouchers.

It's a moral right: parents (and children) should have the option to choose where they want to go to school, and the funding should follow the child. Now, if you want schools to reopen, you just send your child to one that is reopening. If you want to be cautious, you send your child to an online school or homeschool them with the help of the funding and online educational programs.

That despite Trump making noise, the US Federal govt would at still kick in and do it’s thing in an emergency. That confidence has been deeply shaken, and it’s hard to have faith in the US as a stable country moving forward.

I don't think any of my beliefs have changed.