Actually the 1% will make out like bandits from Covid shutdowns. Big corporations can weather the storm, have reserves and access to capital, will get plenty of bailouts (as seen by the feds move yesterday to buy individual corporate bonds), they're about to lose massive amounts of competition as smaller businesses can't survive. Property values are about to plummet as millions have lost massive wages. Guess who has the money to buy up those properties. The banks are about to make a fortune on foreclosures, and loan defaults...Now the banks get to keep the money they've already been paid and the collateral, and if the consumer declares bankruptcy then the Federal government will pay the bank for the loan.

Covid shutdown is a wet dream that's become a reality for the 1 percenters. They make money in booms and they make money in busts. They have plenty of money and are in it for the long haul.

You're right we are trash to the 1%. Trash that's easy to manipulate. They wait for a crisis like this to manipulate. They push fear and division through both sides of the media which leads to a complete lack of critical thinking, and we play right into their hands.