No - those things happened before the Pandemic.
It's adding fuel to existing flames, there are more people with less to do and less to lose.
These young lawyers, laid off by Pandemic related economic downturn, suddenly turned into firebombers: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... otest.html
It's too bad we don't have a stable, capable hand behind the wheel of the USA to calm things down. Instead we have a Twitter troll people voted for "reasons"