“Getting through” a crisis is almost guaranteed short of a planet killing asteroid. We also “got through” WWII, although it was an extremely unpleasant time.

Covid (and the response to it) caused the deepest global recession since the Great Depression. It was a big deal, very damaging to the global economy, and generally a miserable time for most.

Your recollection is incorrect, and besides that, Covid had a serious impact on the world that's still being felt today. We didn't simply "get through it just fine."

It was absolutely the end of the world for many folks not as privileged by sheer chance of birth place. And getting through this "just fine" will mean hundreds of thousands of starvations in addition to the "default rate" of ~10k just children dying of malnutration each day. So yeah, congratulations to your luck that you can just shrug it off as insignificant for you personally..

> ... like Covid, where I recall almost everyone on HN believed it'd be the end of the world ...

Looking back, but don't see that. Maybe I'm just failing to hit Peak Doomer?

For example - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-06-09

No one is claiming the end of the world here. Just $150 to $200 per barrel of oil.