One lasting damage done by Covid-19 could be a disastrous drop in trust in anyone or anything.

Many of the institutions people used to trust did not deserve it anyway. (In the US: the justice system, thugs, the military, the economy, the medical finance system.) However, others did deserve trust. (US: science, medicare, CDC, actual medicine, social security.)

By "deserve trust" I do not mean infallibility. Any institution can make a mistake, just as any person can. However, well-functioning institutions do a pretty good job, most of the time.