It wil inevitably have that effect by accelerating changes that were already taking place and possibly introducing a few new ones. Ultimately the inefficiency of market driven societies compared with centrally controlled more authoritarian states to gear up to a pandemic or national emergency is a lesson that cannot be ignored. Further, societies that have promoted diversity and ethnic minorities largely living in self contained cultural pockets, oblivious to the needs of social distancing etc, such as post colonial divide and rule Britain are at an overall disadvantage. Lacking hegemony, lacking strong professional leadership, set on a bizarre path of proving to itself it still has an independent major role in the world, even if it means obvious long term damage, the UK is likely to fall further behind.