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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: There is no silver lining to the COVID pandemic.

The pandemic brought millions of deaths, a lot of people got sequels from COVID, others got anxiety, the world is in (another) economic recession. P.S.: also, the expansion of public transit is basically dead.

\- Change of mentality: this pandemic showed how selfish the human being can be. This pandemic came to be during the post-truth era and during the government of conspirationist populists in some countries, so a lot of people (especially in supposedly well-educated countries) ignored health safety measurements because of some conspiracy in regards to "loss of freedom". Also, countries in the lower end of human development will take forever to vaccinate their populations because of patents.

\- Vaccines: the pandemic brought to us a vaccine that was made in record time and still be around as effective and safe as other vaccines. However, the record time brought a problem: people start to mistrust it because it took too little to make. Also, these people's fears got intensified because the vaccine has an "extremely high" (read "non-zero") chance of side effects. And it gets worse because there are (supposedly) a few cases of vaccinated kids getting heart issues, which will hinder the vaccination even more.
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No one is saying that silver lining offset the negatives, but they do exist.

I would say the biggest one is glacier shift on "work from home" culture. Employees and companies found out that many jobs can be done from home which is great because it eliminates commute which is bad for both personal time and environment.

I don't think "office only" culture will survive even post pandemic.