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It's like that with everything. If a catastrophe can be capitalized, it will. 911 was extremely profitable for the MIC, imperialism, etc. Covid was only profitable to big pharma. The state values global violence far more than the health of any population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Except if other capital interests stand in the way of a new market.
Clean energy is extremely lucrative, but dirty energy still has money.
Plenty of other sectors profited also from covid, an excuse to make everything more expensive and never cheaper when it ends.
Same with that ship that blocked the Suez Canal for a short time.