If Covid-19 really is a bio-weapon aimed at the United States, why would they release it among their own population first and not care about the consequences if it also reduced populations around the rest of the world?
Releasing it first among your own populations and into known streams of contagion spread (international air travel) is certainly cynical enough and far-reaching enough to be sure the United States gets it and with some deflecting cover besides.
But the world knows it came out of China and I don’t think any other country hates us enough to be happy in sharing our Covid-19 fate. Especially when the world knows we’ll likely to be the first to develop an effective treatment and/or cure while they languish until treatments finally reach them.
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Plausible deniability. China’s communists have no problem using their own population as cannon fodder. Life has always been very cheap in Asia.
Because it was the easiest way to create a world wide pandemic is to use your own vast population.
Because (1) plausible deniability, they can either say it was accidentally released or it was released by the United States, (2) they have a substantial elderly and sick population that their shitty, corrupt economy cannot handle when the bills come due, and (3) they have cover to do a mass cleansing of dissidents.
China gets to kill their own financial burdens and opponents while poisoning the west.