The ASX shares to shine during AND after the COVID-19 recovery // Motley Fool Australia

Having just celebrated my 52nd birthday, I’ve experienced my fair share of market moving events.

But nothing in the 30-plus years I’ve been tracking global stocks compares to these past 9 months.

Well, 9 months minus 4 days.

That takes us back to 20 February, when the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) closed at 7,162.5 points. An all-time high.

You know what happened next.

Hopes that the coronavirus could be contained to isolated pockets of Australia and the world came unravelled. The once almost unthinkable spectre of global Wuhan-style lockdowns morphed almost overnight into a bitter reality.

With unemployment rising, and forecast to rocket, investors stampeded for the exits. By 23 March, the ASX 200 had shed 37% from its record…