Belarus isn't doing so bad because it's relatively isolated compared to the rest of Europe - not as much traffic in or out. If you want to treat this as a conspiracy, I suggest you consider what the situation in Russia is like right now. The Russian government treated it as a hoax and downplayed the risk (same with Brazil), now they are 2nd and 3rd in the world in infections, and desperately unprepared to face the pandemic. Many hospitals have no protective clothing or equipment to help patients of the virus and hundreds of people are dying each day, so to call it a conspiracy of the rich is absolutely disrespectful. Locking down a country is the only way to face this - South Korea and Taiwan took the issue very seriously and weathered the storm. Americans and Europeans can't stand to have their rights infringed, so they stupidly go outside and communicate the virus. There is a cult of ignorance in these countries that is far more dangerous than all of these alleged plans of billionaires, and it's the reason why thousands more in the UK, US, etc died than was necessary. About the financial aspect - hospitals in the US are bleeding money because of this because they are losing every other line of business, or are turning people away due to the risk. They can't wait for things to go back to normal. And if you're calling it overblown, the virus quadrupled the death rate in New York City for weeks - every New Yorker knows someone who lost someone close. This isn't a conspiracy, it's very real and very deadly. For a person with a "very good financial education", you sound like a patient in a mental asylum.