You wonder if these people are intentionally trying to harm the general population. I've always thought that, until my husband said to me, "Honey, they don't want you dead. They just don't care if you die."
That was chilling.
They don't care enough about us to put any effort into doing us harm. They don't have time to think about the unwashed masses. They're too busy making trillions for themselves, amassing power and clinking cocktail glasses with each other as they wheel and deal their way to the top .00001 percent . We are truly inconsequential to them.
If per chance, some of us happen to die along the way--well hey--sorry. Ooops, their bad! Think about their actions and what they do. They start wars and kills hundreds of thousands of people--in an attempt enrich war-profiteering companies and plunder the resources (oil) of their target countries. They turn our food supply into disease-producing junk that causes diabetes, heart disease and cancer. They allow dangerous drugs to be foisted on us, that have horrendous side effects. They plunder the ground with fracking and destroy our drinking water. They prevent solar/wind from getting traction so their planet-destroying fossil fuels can be top dog and rake in the trillions for them. They're just having fun--making money and becoming powerful. Killing us, poisoning our water, destroying the planet, giving us cancer and other diseases--yeah, whatever.
They aren't behaving this way *because* their actions harm us. They behave this way because this gets them money and power--and if people are harmed along the way---whatever.