I still see people talk about the pandemic for the US and use the word "shutdown", and I'm like...when? Maybe the first days or week, then the economists chimed in with, "we've got to make things go again". There were a lot of people forced to work-at-home or even laid off for a bit, but there was absolutely not a real shutdown. We wouldn't have survived. Thankfully the "essential worker" label got tagged on just about anyone working a low level job (but not really compensated for that effort), and lots of niches opened up for people needing stuff delivered.