I’m a student of economics and human nature and am aware that our bureaucracies are filled with sociopathic bureaucrats who would seek the most rational way of lowering their costs when they are able to. Covid is a perfect opportunity to hide costs and pad budgets and get away with it, because nobody is going to question your numbers,lest look like they are sociopaths.
Same with businesses, now is the time they dump numbers on the books like long term accounts receivable that really should have been written off long ago.