I mean they're obviously corrupt. When someone like Dido Harding, who's been a serial failure at management in the past. and with no qualifications apart from being a Tory crony, gets put in charge of TTI instead of the NHS, someone who can't foresee that when you open the schools demand for tests will go up, it's hard to imagine any other scenario than corruption.

But I can think of two other reasons that lockdown does them no good. First, if it was corruptible, Trump and other corrupt leaders would be it's biggest champion, but it's quite the opposite. It's more of a liberal/conservative thing, where the con countries are the most resistant to lockdown. You can argue the reasons for that but the transparent things like individual freedom vs. collective good seems to fit pretty well.

Secondly, people need to work to generate wealth, so tellling them to stay home doesn't seem like a way to generate money.

All that said, it is amazing to hear how much richer the very richest have been getting. So maybe there's more going on than I understand.