One of the grand illusions about the powers that be is that they know what they’re doing. They don’t. From Steve Sailer at takimag.com:

With Moderna’s announcement on Monday of a second extremely effective vaccine (which reduces your chance of getting COVID by 18/19ths) to go along with Pfizer’s vaccine, we can now see a definite light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
This will prove disappointing to many elites, who have enthusiastically latched onto the idea that the virus justifies “The Great Reset”: policies hyped to, as Joe Biden would say, “Build Back Better,” which, coincidentally, happen to be whatever they had already felt like doing to us beforehand.
For example, Time magazine’s Nov. 2, 2020, cover story “The Great Reset” includes a collection of featurettes by the Great and the Good explaining what they have in mind for us, which is mostly more of the same. A sampling:
Tony Blair: I’ve Always Been an Optimist. But for the First Time Ever I’m Troubled About the Future
The term Great Reset, extolled by Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, is a concoction of the World Economic Forum, the fine folks who put on the annual Davos Conference for the world’s most insufferable networkers.