[PA Engineer]

I am so tired of hearing this virus was manufactured. It is far too weak and indiscriminate to be a bioweapon.

I suggest the following scenario.

The virus escape was an accident from a bio lab just like the original SARs from Beijing.

The CCP began the coverup to prevent the world from seeing the severity of the impact.

The Chinese have a long history of dynasty collapses from the loss of "Mandate of Heaven." They took a pragmatic and logical approach to maintain power..

They allowed the virus to spread to weaken their enemies. China sees everyone outside of China as their enemies. Watch what they do to their internal enemies.

Their approach was to weaken every other country to reduce any foreign threats to the regime's power.

There Silk Road strategy is working perfectly as they destroy the populations along it. Their thinking is they will recover first and then they can dominate large areas of the world.

Their original military strategy was exactly that including the destruction of the US.

They didn't have to fire a shot. They lose a few million of 1.3 billion. That is nothing. The cold calculus is they won and they maintain power.

[Mariner]

“They allowed the virus to spread to weaken their enemies. “

As transmissible as this virus is, they didn’t have to allow it to do anything.

[cgbg]

PA:

One of the reasons that Nixon opened the door to China was that he believed if he could tie our economy to China in a web of interdependence, then war between the two countries would become unthinkable.

There was then (and of course is now) a segment of Chinese leadership that resented that arrangement and was prepared to go to extreme measures (including risking national suicide) to break away from what they viewed as an American “trap”.

So, my view is that the Chinese leadership is not unified. Many of the leaders enjoy the wealth that trading with the west has brought China.

It may well be that China has a “Deep State” problem just like we do, and of course their “Deep State” would control the bio-weapons labs.

Imho the majority of the leadership does not want to crash their economy so they can crash everyone elses—but now they are playing with the ugly hand they have been dealt—lie and blame everyone else for this disaster.