What I think is this:
“Pandemic planning” has been going on for many years, kind of under the radar, at least as far as the public is concerned. I’ve attended at least ten pandemic planning sessions, work groups, and served on one DOD planning panel since, oh, 1997 or so.
When this happened, the responsible people know right away that if the full story were ever divulged they would, at a minimum, be disgraced if not worse.
They activated an “off the shelf” pandemic plan that was designed to deal with a mutated Influenza A strain, Public masking has always been a component of any influenza pandemic plan.
At first, goal one was to USE the pandemic to get rid of President Trump. Read the utterances of all the COVID twitterati if you are not convinced.
However, quickly, there was a shift to getting rid of COVID by any means necessary, no matter the cost. The reason for the confusion, the shifting sands, the changes in “guidance” week to week, month to month, is that there has never been a coronavirus plan as well developed as various flu plans, it had to be made up as they went along.
Why the rush? Why the panic?
Because the longer it went on, the more likely the case for US-funded and designed gain-of-function research as the proximate cause would become accepted. This had the potential to cause a regime crisis (American Chernobyl) and eventually bring the whole corrupt house down.
This is why Biden requires a fence around the Capitol to go there to speak.
It’s not that I don’t believe that Klaus Schwab, George Soros, the Gates Foundation would not do what they are accused of. I just believe that panic over being exposed by the US officials actually responsible for this is a better and more parsimonious explanation for two years of chaos and constant changes in “the plan”.