In the meantime – and unsurprisingly – the balanced-containment strategies were also shown to be deeply inequitable. Both the incidence and relative risk of death from COVID were highly correlated with income, social status and racialized status (Karmakar, Lantz, & Tipirneni, 2021). The likely reason being that people in high incidence groups were also the ones whose work could not be done remotely, being exposed to high-risk occupations (Middleton, Reintjes, & Lopes, 2020), living in higher density tenements, and not having much of a choice in those matters. The weaker infection control measures were, and the further they were pushed toward the maximization of economic activity, the worse the impact on equity.