«Remember the “working people”? They are the ones who went to work every day during Covid so that preppy elites could hide in their houses.»

The most outrageous aspect of the COVID story is that the countries that adopted a mass test-trace and isolate approach had both tiny sickness and death rates, and negligible to none hit on jobs and businesses, and yet the governments of the USA and UK did not adopt that approach because:

* Ideologically, it is "collectivist", because it means that the government has to fund and organize a test-trace-isolate system. That is incompatible with reaganism and the sacred principle that “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I'm from the government, and I'm here to help’”. Besides the approach of doing half-baked lock-downs and vaccinations gives the opportunity for a massive "big pharma saviours of humanity" propaganda campaign.

* Practically, as your write, the biggest risks and losses with the half-baked lock-down approach have been taken by lower income workers and small businesses, people like delivery drivers and bar owners, while the financial sector, investors, and upper-middle class professionals have done pretty well.