To a Divide & Control totalitarian virtue signaler it could be used like "bitter clinger", "deplorable", "dog-faced pony soldier", "useless eater" or "jew".
Badges? We don't have to show you any steeenkin badges.
I've seen "non-essential" used in eugenicist's conversation.
And A.I. technocrats.
Ouch!
When I hear the terms “Essential Jobs”, “Essential Workers” and “Essential Businesses”, I think of the classic “Twilight Zone” episode, “The Obsolete Man” .
We are on a dangerous slippery slope.