Occam's Razor says it is exactly what we thought it was. The Wuhan virology institute was experimenting with SARS coronaviruses found in bats. They said so publicly last fall. One in particular was even nastier than SARS v.1. Their containment was sloppy and it got out into the general population. The Chinese tried to hush it up rather than contain the outbreak in an early stage. It spread through the population in China, and then through the world via jet travel.
> Its mortality rate may not even be 1% (depends on how many asymptomatic infections there are) and it disproportionately targets people who are old, black, and confined in nursing homes. It’s a poor excuse for a weapon of war.
This was the same initial response that I got from my brother, a Marine. But I believe you are both drawing the wrong conclusions due to invalid assumptions.
1) This isn’t supposed to be a weapon of war. It is supposed to be a tool for discrete, deniable, nearly untraceable assassinations of difficult targets.
2) The 1% mortality rates of non-targets is not low, it is unsatisfactorily high. The rate should be closer to 0.001% or lower, so that the infection passes nearly unnoticed through almost the entire world population, until it infects the preprogrammed targets.
3) Of course I don’t believe this is a finished product. It looks more like a first or second attempt that slipped out of the lab through carelessness.