What’s the likelehood of that having been possible? When this first came to light it confirmed my suspicion that the flu was being conflated with covid. I suspect that at that point the PTB figured it suited their agendas best to actually relabel the flu as “covid.”
Many years of planning this - they had large international conferences role playing how to control communications and people in the event of a ‘pandemic’. The text of some of those conference documents is Orwellian.
The main strategic advantage here is Elites are kept safe and are in control of their pandemic. A real pandemic could ‘get away’ from them and actually harm some of THEM.