Well, you know, except for all the people not getting the virus due to reduced transmission.<p>But yes, when distribution networks are stressed, bigger players will obviously have more pull and smaller businesses will have more trouble getting in what they need and/or delivering their products, at anything beyond a very local scale.
If we look at the price people are paying for the lock down vs the risk, the other diseases and (often preventable) ways to die and the 637 B profits made by billionaires it doesn't prove it is one big CONSPIRACY but to label it "unintended consequence" is rather naive.<p>I'd much rather see [say] diarrhea cured (which kills 2200 children per day) and risk dying than implode the economy and abolish relationships to save old people.<p>The numbers suggest 0.4% is infected and 0.01% died of which the large majority had poor health. We simply don't have practical ideas to save the victims. It would be much easier to save a few millions if we focus on nutrition.