>>212983426government was panicking because they didn't want to keep paying the benefits. There was a small baby boom. Lots of women realized that they like being stay at home moms instead of career women. People started working from home and they had to discourage that afterwards. Lots of people paid down their debts because they were at home, collecting money but not spending it, which was a literal holocaust for Mr. Shekelstein. Immigrants were prevented from flooding in which temporarily raised wages and increased the bargaining power of workers so they had to let even more in when the pandemic was over to "re-calibrate the economy"
It's no wonder that conservatards were the most pissed off about the lockdowns.