We're optimizing to short-term economic damage. I suspect if COVID rolls through a dozen times, and gives just a few percent of the population brain fog on each pass, the long-term economic damage will be astronomical.
If this is really the mass disabling event I suspect it is, and given the way it has expressed along the lines of inequality that already exist, and how healthcare is tied to employment... and we really only accept "personal responsibility" as the cause of all hardship....
Prob gonna get real eugenicsy over here the next 5-10 years. I pray that I'm wrong I truly do.