In Austria this might be definately the tendency. Even though I can't back it up with numbers.
The middle class seems to be disappearing.

Whenever there was money to spend on C19 (and there was a lot), it went through/in the pockets of the elite close to the gov.

e.g. Austria introduced mandatory FFP2 masks. Insiders had been informed prior to the mandate and got them selves in a good position to make some huge profits.

Also the money to help people and business over the lockdowns mostly went into pockets of H&M, Benko, Austrian Airlines and other big business. Before distributing this money, gov created a 'private company', which acted like a blackbox: The money went in on one side, and came out the other, but nobody could really know where it all went...