They (the governmental and quasi-governmental bodies, NGOs, political parties, etc.) jumped on the bandwagon and exaggerated Covid's hazardousness - to serve their own ends. But I don't think that they actually planned to do so in advance or in any way instigated the pandemic. They merely knew a good thing when they saw one.
Again, I will not argue against anyone who believes that he has thought longer and harder about this than I have, and has arrived at a different conclusion. I, myself, said from the start that there was a small but not insignificant possibility that Corona was a lab experiment (maybe even a weapons test) gone wrong. From the very start, I asserted that Western governments would be positively loath to investigate or acknowledge that possibility - the prospect of their respective peoples demanding that China be punished would have broken their little international / globalist hearts.
So, keep up the good work Salamander. I do not mean to cast any aspersions upon your arguments. I'm just not that far... yet.
Regards,