My pet theory: Swamp Dwellers and Rat World governors are teasing out the lock-down for as long as they can to keep the economy down and get rid of President Trump.
I agree with both of your theories. Something didn’t pass the smell test at the very outset of this. IIRC, early on there was some footage out of Wuhan (or could’ve been elsewhere in China) that showed some folks flopping around on the street like fish out of water. The take-away (I reckon) was “See, this is what the rona does to people”.
You catch on fast. (That’s always been “the deal”.)
That wouldn’t surprise me. Everyone who benefits from this extended lock-down and destroyed economy are opponents of Trump and his agenda, whether domestic of foreign.
When you distill all the junk that comes out of the left (e.g. anti-gun, low-flow toilets, environmental regs, climate change, abortion, etc.) it’s all about control.
The left has lusted for control ever since a serpent in a garden told them they “would be like gods”.
Oh, you’re just now sussing that out? As long as they can keep the sheep herded, they’ll milk it to the point of wrecking 244 years American history, just to boot Trump and regain power. Makes you wonder what their next gambit will be if Trump wins in Novemeber, don’t it? I mean, now it’s a ‘viral pandemic’. What next, aliens landing?