After corona ends, people will spend money like crazy on things they could not do during corona. People will spend less on Pokemon cards. Flippers will leave the hobby as they undercut each other to fund other things in their lives. Not all cards will decrease in price, but many will. This process may take at least a year to happen.
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I believe everything that has been said all ready is interconnected in one way or another and as a result this is current outcome in the hobby.
Covid lock downs, government stimulus packages, nostalgia, Platform Influencer’s, graded card popularity, buying and selling entrepreneur’s etc.
Other than the first two all of the other stuff has been happening slowly for years, slowly building up momentum.
What I am interested in is how the graded card market is going to be in 6 months to a years time. The grading boom has been massive for Pokemon. If you have been watching submission videos from middlemen and indivduals, the amount of orders for grading companies have been high and it isn’t just people in the US, people are submitting cards worldwide.
Graded cards are going to readily available in the future and population reports are going to soar in numbers on popular cards with Wotc and Modern.
The amount of Pokemon cards over the years being sent off for grading has quadrupled.
PSA having the largest market share in graded pokemon cards is getting most of it with beckett, CGC and other lesser known grading companies getting the rest.
Just a personal observation but I’ve noticed a lot of poorer condition cards are getting sent in for grading with PSA,
Could the whole mentality of only collecting mint 9’s and gem mint 10’s is possibly be changing?
Are they individuals who are grading there childhood collections for future protection? are they nest eggs for the future? or are they a new wave of entrepreneurs buying up collections to sell down the track for profit?
Is it due to the price growth on the higher grades and individuals seeing it is cheaper to grade lesser condition cards for personal collections?
I watch a lot of submission videos on you tube just out of curiosity what people are grading and to check out other Peoples card collections to admire, look at artwork and appreciate. It is truly amazing seeing what everyone has collected over the years or have bought to grade,
All I know is knowledge is power and thanks to the internet knowledge is readily available for anyone.
One of the concerns in regards to knowledge at the moment in personal opinion is, what is being shared truthfully, honestly and accurately?
Or what is being shared for personal gain by others? How is that going to effect everything down the road?
Everything that has been happening whether it be of circumstance, personal beliefs and everything else that has been already discussed on this forum about the current thing goings on at the moment is no doubt interconnected in one way or another.
I will just continue to keep doing what I have always done watch from the sidelines and just continue to enjoy the hobby.
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For me, I was watching a tonnnnn of alpha investments more for insight into the financial world but I had no passion for MTG – I still watch them to this day along with more recently smpratte . After this bug was caught about 2 years ago I bought out alot of collections for about two months, boxed them up and kept my favorites out for display. When CoVid hit – I started thinking about what I wanted to do and I learned everything I could about a set and flipped it for a few weeks, then I realized A. these cards are worth more than this 2-5$ gain after fees and B. I’m giving up cards that I want to keep. So I stopped… Now I buy the sets I want and keep them – I’ll check into the market in 5/10yrs and maybe dump the duplicates but there is something about having a chunk of what you could never have from your childhood-- and that’s cool 
I think Rudy’s point of collectibles being a non-registered asset and the lack of ongoing annual fees will continue to push incremental amounts of new investors and hopefully, collectors, into/back-into the market/hobby. I also love that there is a finite amount of cards in existence and the fact it’s a physical object and not a fraction of something on a screen ++ it’s art!! (however I do own some Dow Index 
Short moments in time that brought me to/back to pokemon:
1st (2000) : Playground binders : 2nd (2008) : Artwork
3rd (2018) : Excess Cashflow/Social Media : 4th (2020) : The 'Rona
Also, I’ve thought since the virus started with most people being forced to do nothing – people are doing what they’d like to do ‘all the time’ – so if a ton of people figured it was getting back a piece of their youth I think that’s a positive thing for everybody
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I think it will be interesting to see where they go next. Will the stay in the hobby? Will they stick to just base set and it’s variants? Or will they get obsessed like most of us did and start to discover other sets: gym, neo, e-series etc.
Time will tell! It’s always fun to watch and speculate though 