You could well be right of course, but the absolute worst case scenario rarely comes true. In my opinion the further we get from the pandemic, the more of a return to "normalcy" we'll see. Notice there's no more large BLM protests or calls to defund the police anything like that despite unarmed people still being killed by the police, but go back to June 2020 and people would have you believe it's the end of the nation.
But then again, if some election deniers win in November then I'll probably be a lot less optimistic