My belief is that printing trillions of dollars and growing the money supply by 40% in a short period of time has impacted asset prices, and now consumer prices.

If covid impacted other things (i.e. business), why are all asset prices up well above pre-covid levels.

The impact of the money printing outweighs any other covid impacts. Nothing covid related should tell us that Manhattan real estate should be above pre-covid levels w/ work from home, lockdowns and overall decrease in quality of life. It's the money supply