Yet the story we heard over and over from "experts" was that for some complicated theoretical reason exploding the money supply wouldn't cause inflation --- and then, after inflation became impossible to just ignore, that the inflation was due to complicated "supply chain hiccup" and would be "transitory". Whatever.
Common sense is a real thing that exists. Expertise doesn't make someone correct: it just makes him knowledgeable. An expert under pressure to arrive at a false conclusion (often for political reasons) will use that knowledge to bamboozle you.
The general public should think more critically and reflect on why they allowed motivated economic experts to tell them blatant (and not just in hindsight) lies about the consequences of running the money printer.