You are exactly what you do.
Discussion
You are implicitly arguing that no one can change, which is a lie, and is not what God believes.
You are what God says you are, and what you decide to believe to believe about yourself.
All of these statements can be true simultaneously:
What we each believed and how we acted during covid revealed who we are. What we do/how we behave, especially in such a scenario as that, speaks more to who we each are than what we say about ourselves.
It is also true that Covid changed people. It changed me. Laser has said it changed him. This doesn't contradict his first statement because his first statement seemed to be about revelation, not a fixed state of being.
God can and does change people, and Lord willing he will change a lot of people from who they were during covid to be people of actual courage and character and conviction. And Lord willing he will continue to sanctify his people to not be so easily duped by tyrants and lies.
In attempting to integrate his and my assertions, you explicate what's true, "speaks more to who we each are." Which implies that actions speak to who a person is, but are not the same thing as who and what a person is, which is arguably what I asserted but didn't fully explicated to that level of detail. So well done!
But Laser isn't saying that a person's identity can be observed in their actions. Laser explicitly articulated that a person's identity IS their actions, which is false on it's face, because identity is an intrinsic state, not an extrinsic state. A person's identity may be perceived as outside a person, in their actions, what they own, or what other people think of them, but those are all external to the person, not in the person.
First, a person is defined by his or her identity architecture as created by God, which is indelible. This is, aside from God Himself, the base layer, or close to the base layers/dimensions of identify.
Second, a person's identity proceeds from a person's choices relative to their intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, in their inner being where their identity takes up form and meaning.
So while it might seem that Laser's identity worldview, and my identity worldview overlap, that Laser asserts that what a person does is exactly who they are, he is pointing to a history record of actions that other people can observe, and that the person themselves can observe, and even remember, but that is not the location of either of the first two dimensions of identity I explicated.
Laser seems to be implying that a person fundamentally performs FOR identity, whereas the identificational worldview I'm asserting is that God's designed humanity and individuals and groups to operate FROM identity based on the words/design of God that cannot be change.
The former worldview is based on striving, on earning or working for identity.
The latter worldview is based on accepting God's gift of identity, and then taking action based on an identity that's already settled, in some sense.
I think a performatively based identity is dangerous, because it leads to striving, trying to prove oneself as good or worthy, which is impossible because God's moral standard is perfection. This path leads to wrestelessness and suffering and self-justification, not life.
However, I think learning to accept Jesus' gift of perfect righteousness through the Holy Spirit making the person who accepts it, a "new creature," that is, an identity of righteousness from God, introduces peace, and enables a person to take action absent a need for striving but rather because God first loved us. It's the acceptance that first, we accept that God makes us good, converting us from sinners into saints. Again, those who accept God gift of righteousness are no longer sinners, but saints, sons and daughter of God. I would argue this brings a person into or at least closer to the rest of the Father, through the acceptance of the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
So, the assertion that a person is exactly what they do, is a not true.
And the belief that a person is first, what God makes them, and second, who they choose to believe they are, is true. And it's a good idea to make this subtle but pivotal shift.