This is mindless.
Companies have to raise prices during fearful times in order to profit now so they can cover the potential losses later.
I jacked my prices up BIG TIME in early COVID because I didn't know if I would be out of work in 2 years. I made a fortune in 2020 and half a fortune in 2021 as things equalized and nothing really bad happened.
I deserved that profit for taking a risk, tho. If things would have gotten shut down for me, I would have had enough cash to weather 2-3 years of outage and rebuild my businesses.
To wit, fuck you for your collectivism.