I think most of us would rather not have had COVID. It has been devastating for many economies and it took a bad toll on people. However it has had some side benefits (some may argue that having Trump removed for now may be one of them, LOL).
I am talking about the digital revolution that was already taking place, yet still had some bumps along the road to occur, and has been forcefully implemented by many companies that required their people to keep on working. I am also talking about the immense number of new influencers and subscription services that had increased their adept several times-fold. All this would have taken ages otherwise.
I do see these kinds of news and I do not really think that it would matter all that much. I mean sure there are small things, politically all the dictators lost a bit of power, trump is gone and all the other right wing people who want to take power and not leave lost a lot of power as well, why? Because leftist stuff did help people during this period, giving people money for free, giving people free healthcare, giving people federal aids, all these are usually very left in all around the world and even right wings had to accept it.
But the biggest help was the climate, even though it is still doing very bad, it could have gone even more bad if we didn't had covid, the world direly needs our help or if we do not do something about it, the world will and it will destroy all of us to keep turning without us in it. No matter how much "good" we can find, it still killed millions of people, and that is just can't be compared to any side-good that may have happened.