I don’t know if you ever read Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, but the people behind this appear to be True Believers who would be quite happy to rule over the ruins - as long as they rule.
But personally, I think most of the vaccine doses being dispensed are saline placebos. Pfizer gets gets rich for free, the public is pacified, and the government compiles a nice big database of who is complaint and who isn’t - for future reference.
How many people do they actually need to build a couple of Lear jets per year, drill for and refine fuels, raise Wagyu beef, grow organic veggies, upkeep their mansions, build yachts, work in robotics and programming etc.