The new rulers would be the current ones, who probably rode out the pandemic on their pedophile islands, who've been profiting from the pandemic since before you'd even heard about wuflu, and who are now parlaying it into permanent abridgements of your rights, because most people are stupid and lazy and small-souled enough to gladly accept tyranny as long as their nintendo still works.
No matter how you see things playing out, the elites are not going to run out of food before you do, nor are they going to lose influence over normiecattle, which they'll leverage against you if you maintain any pretensions of "ruling" a goddamn thing.
Seriously, where the hell do people get this idea that history will magically invert itself for no reason? Like the infected count is going to hit 14.88 million and Hitler descends from the heavens to institute a thousand year reich or something. Like freedom will somehow be delivered to you as if you ordered it on fucking amazon.
If you want to have the whip-hand you have to gain it, because even if some miracle happened where the elites all dropped dead, the vacuum won't be filled by idiot doomers who've been sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.