The covid triangle article in the FT is really something. It would be really interesting to try to build inequality into a macro-epi model somehow, to grapple with the aggregate wealth and health consequences of inequality during a pandemic.
Obvs this is what makes a post pandemic budget that attempts no recompense for what happened, nor any recipe, nor even a conversation about what to do about mitigating some future pandemic, frankly obscene.
It's also not rational from the point of view of those at the top of the pile, even if you assumed they had no sense of altruism or social justice.
Inequality in 'ability to socially distance [self isolate at work, into low density accommodation...]' breeds higher virus prevalence, mortality for the rich and lower aggregate econ activity, and requires harsher regulated social distancing to suppress.
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