People wouldn't have had those issues had it not been for COVID. So how do you phrase it? Enlighten us without making us laugh. As someone put it earlier: it

People wouldn't have had those issues had it not been for COVID. So how do you phrase it? Enlighten us without making us laugh. As someone put it earlier: it would be stupid to say "a gun is a lethal weapon only to someone who's been lethally shot".