This is like an international political thriller combined with a mass extinction event. Trying to create the combination of 1) making themselves solely immune from the bioweapon and 2) simultaneous immolating their society.
In late January I was suspecting this may very well be a means of internal population control/reduction. This has been an agenda item for CCP for generations.
However, having read The Stand cover to cover three times in my teen years, I’m always a little paranoid about these outbreaks.
I feel like I am watching a disaster movie from the mid 1970’s...only the concession stand is closed and you can’t get up from your chair.