Sometimes a comic strip can, in one panel, say it all.
For those who can’t or don’t want to click, including a disabled friend of mine, it offers big spikes on a graph for March and April for the words, sewing machine, webcam, Andrew Cuomo, flour, pangolin.
Underneath, a caption that says, I want to show someone from 2019 this Google trends graph and watch them to try to guess what happened.