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It undermines the bottom tiers of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and keeps everyone focused purely on survival so they can never organise and revolt. It has two "benefits" in this regard - 1) if you're always tired and fighting long COVID or other conditions (thanks to COVID's ability to damage the immune system), you won't have the energy to push back against authoritarianism, and 2) it helps foster division between people since the need to avoid getting sick will prompt some to avoid riskier situations (e.g. large social gatherings, etc.).
Also drives business for healthcare providers. Everyone wants long-term, desperate customers with no alternatives with inelastic demand(will pay anything). It's the entire US healthcare model.
not exactly, they want to healthy non-insurance using customers, chronically ill people are costly to insurance companies, they rather not insure them,. its the pharm companies that would benefit from chronically ill patients.
chronically ill people cuts into the profits the insurance companies alot more. thats why they always price out older customers, or the chronically ill ones.