[offby37years]

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — John Dalberg-Acton

[dekerta]

That's a nice quote, but still doesn't answer the question. No government in their right mind wants to continue lockdowns unnecessarily. Lockdowns cost a lot of money and make a lot of voters angry

[offby37years]

Lockdowns were just meant to be for two weeks to “flatten the curve”, remember?

[bzzt]

Well, in Germany three politicians who had to resign because of corruption where they had made deals with companies manufacturing masks and made hundreds of thousands of euros. And this is just facts and no conspiracy theories, and I bet this goes on at every level. If you find a way to (legitimately) control people and peoples behaviours, of course it's lucrative.

[SteveNuts]

But don't lockdowns cause a "loss of power" (economic, trade, prestige)? This just doesn't make sense to me.

[oblio]

They do, but people complaining about this tend to convenient focus on the powerful people making money because of lockdowns while absolutely ignoring the powerful people <<losing>> money because of them.