One thing that strikes me about this is how it is affecting literally everybody on the planet in one form or another. And people all over the world are having similar experiences.

Yes that sticks out for me too - it's worldwide saturation of the same event at the same time with similar consequences playing out in everyone's lives.

Also good point about how climate change - actually far more serious i would have thought - cannot generate the same sort of concerted effort. Imagine if all the effort and money that goes into the virus went into urgently combatting climate change...

I'm afraid though climate change might get a back seat in terms of funding initiatives for quite a while.