Unless the goal is single payer health care / medicare for all / shrink population / reduce costs etc etc. Who's it taking out? Old poor people mainly but also some unhealthy/obese people.
Some theories have it as originally being developed here and being stolen by China with the help of someone here or in Canada. I've always enjoyed a good conspiracy theory as entertainment but since 2015/16, they're less entertainment and more plausible because we've watched a real doozy slowly unfold before our eyes. Maybe it was supposed to be unleashed under pantsuit to make single payer more doable and help save dem state/city budgets. Other western countries have the same situation. They all just recently imported new people too. [tin foil hat off]
I don’t buy it. Judging by China’s reactions in the early weeks, this appears to be an accidental release of an early attempt at creating a targeted pathogen.
“Maybe it was supposed to be unleashed under pantsuit to make single payer more doable and help save dem state/city budgets. Other western countries have the same situation.”
It was done for something more than just insurance. It was done to get Trump blamed for it’s arrival and that failed. So the states used it to hammer the economy, Trump’s strong point, to harm him in November.
rwood