Sure, THEY know Covid is a serious thing, but they hope you don't if you aren't rich like them A lot of their agenda seems to be to, as Ebenezer Scrooge said, "let them die and reduce the surplus population" (may not be an exact quote but that's how I remember it from the old movie). They fan the flames of anti-vax and anti-mask sentiment but still they protect themselves.

Note that the politicians that are anti-masking and anti-vax are not part of that "elite" group. They like to think they are, but they are just toadies carrying the water for the ultra-rich, and they are replaceable as far as the "elite" are concerned.