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A global pandemic into a sustained recession and silent great depression will derail all the outcomes you'd built momentum towards in earlier life. You will never really fully recover. Whatever you do gain back will be a shadow of what was going to be.
So try to plan ahead for that, Kiddo.
It's the curse of time that the elder generation only has life lessons for what they went through and the younger generation will live through new things that no one had even imagined possible. So every generation has to figure it out for themselves. Our parents educate us for a world that will not exist when we grow up.
Sounds wise, but that's a cop out though. The general lessons are almost always universal. Don't stockpile vaccines for the omicron variant of covid, sure - that won't occur again as viruses evolve, but...
ETC, ETC, ETC.
Nobody serious prepares their children for the exact scenarios they saw, they generalize what's valuable and then finish by teaching them to be ready to realize that you may be in an entirely different situation, and that will be scary, but if you slow down, you'll realize that there's likely plenty you can take from my experience for helpful shortcuts.