“If this is an escaped Chinese bio weapon why did the Chicoms fiddle fart around with the contagion for a month and a half, then go completely ape about it?”
Because in the communist totalitarian system, it’s very, very hard to report bad news up to your superiors.
Think of the eight doctors who first sounded the alarm, and were arrested for spreading rumors. (They’ just been released and the charges dropped.)
I bet they are good little doctors now.
I don’t know much about bioweapons, but if it is one that China developed wouldn’t they have also developed a way to disable it or at least a vaccine to protect their citizens against it. What good is a bioweapon if the manufacturing country’s citizens are vulnerable? Kind of makes sense that it was a stolen weapon.