Imo it's important to remember that the bourgeois are not a monolith, and they do not always act rationally. Trump is driven by pure ego, and RFK is a crank who sincerely believes his own bullshit, and how many other billionaires are Elon Musk-level detached from reality? To the extent that they do act rationally, we can look at the early days of the pandemic where the focus was on people just going to work normally because a disruption of day-to-day life was seen as disastrous to "the economy" (read: the stock market). I think this is just more trying to memory hole COVID so that they can cling to the status quo, which is going well for them.

A similar question is that if climate change is going to, at bare minimum, cause massive economic damage and an ensuing crash, why are those in the haute bourgeoisie not trying to avoid the worst outcomes? Again, I think it comes down to just wanting the status quo to continue, regardless of whether that's actually tenable.