...there have been dozens and dozens of published papers and now a whole conference on this topic. If you seriously haven't considered (let alone heard about)

...there have been dozens and dozens of published papers and now a whole conference on this topic. If you seriously haven't considered (let alone heard about) this, a simple google scholar search could have remedied this in the time it took you to comment that you "are not sure". Here's a talk from the Collateral Global conference (there are several other talks that address the intersection of labor, lockdowns, and profit motives): https://collateralglobal.org/article/panel-2-the-impact-of-covid-restrictions-on-low-and-middle-income-countries/ https://collateralglobal.org/article/panel-2-the-impact-of-c...