It makes perfect sense. Health industry lobbyists run the government, and they are desperately afraid of two equal and opposite things:

a) The hospitals fill over capacity, and they have to turn away paying customers b) The hospitals aren't full, and they lack paying customers.

Having coronavirus knocking around at a level of 20% to 100% for a full year - I mean, it's like keeping the feedback on a microphone near a speaker making loud weird noises without dying out or blowing the speaker for an entire night. It takes planning. A hooker with that kind of talent would be worth a fortune.