The point is to rile up their chuds enough to go out and harass citizens who look like they may not be citizens (racial minorities) in order to scare them away from legally voting.
99% of us will never see a significant benefit from economic grow. I don’t think we should give a fuck about it. Let’s worry about the cost of healthcare, the damage and lack of repairs to infrastructure, and the predatory housing markets.
Hypothetically, if I was called in to an empty office during a pandemic while the top brass worked from the comfort of home, I would absolutely work quietly and diligently from my designated space, and I would absolutely not load up on beans before hand and at every urge of my bowels, wander into those empty corner offices and fumigate every chair, book, keyboard, mousepad and drawer individually and repeatedly.