In addition to being a massive global eugenics project, it is now increasingly clear that rich people used the pandemic as an excuse to accelerate and prosecute the class war:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-pandemic
"Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed to March 18, 2020. On that day, the United States had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $2.947 trillion.
Four years later, on March 18, 2024, the country has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion, an 87.6 percent increase of $2.58 trillion, according to Institute for Policy Studies calculations of Forbes Real Time Billionaire Data."
The numbers here are staggering, but I think what's most important to remember in all of this is how this vast economic change was sold to us by "Very Serious People" and for-profit media. After thousands upon thousands of stories about "inflation" and how giving poor people money to survive the pandemic would wreck the economy, the obvious truth is that the greed of billionaires and their minions are why you can't afford groceries and everything costs too much now. Rather than us "all being in this together" the pandemic is when the knives came out and the rich bled us all dry. Tax the rich? To hell with that; it's time to abolish them.