https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-covid-19-its-impact-and-origins-after-one-year/?showcomments#comm ents The best is last: (1)Rogue elements within our large national security apparatus probably affiliated with the Deep State Neocons decided to inflict severe damage upon the huge Chinese economy using biowarfare. The plan was to infect the key transport hub of Wuhan with Covid-19 so that the disease would invisibly spread throughout the entire country during the annual Lunar New Year travels, and they used the cover of the Wuhan International MilitaryGames to slip a couple of operatives into the city to release the virus. My guess is that only a relatively small numberof individuals were involved in this plot.(2) The biological agent they released was designed primarily as an anti-economy rather than an anti-personnelweapon. Although Covid-19 has rather low fatality rates, it is extremely contagious, has a long pre-symptomaticinfectious period, and can even spread by asymptomatic carriers, making it ideally suited for that purpose. Thus, once it established itself throughout most of China, it would be extremely difficult to eradicate and the resulting efforts to control it would inflict enormous damage upon China's economy and society.(3) As a secondary operation, they decided to target Iran's political elites, possibly deploying a somewhat more deadly variant of the virus. Since political elites generally tend to be elderly, they would anyway suffer far greaterfatalities.(4) The deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks in East Asia and the Near East had never significantly spread back toAmerica (or Europe), so the plotters wrongly assumed that the same would be the case with Covid-19. Anyway, since *international organizations always ranked the US and Europe as having the best and most effective public health systems for combating any disease epidemic*, they believed that any possible blowback damage would bevery minor.(5) Only a small number of individuals were directly involved in this plot, and soon after the disease was successfully released in Wuhan, they decided to further safeguard America's own interests by alerting the appropriate units with the Defense Intelligence Agency, probably by fabricating some sort of supposed "intelligence leak." Basically, theyarranged for the DIA to hear that Wuhan was apparently suffering a "cataclysmic" disease outbreak, thereby leading the DIA to prepare and distribute a secret report warning our own forces and allies to take appropriate precautions.(6) Unfortunately for these plans, the Chinese government reacted with astonishing determination and effectiveness, and soon stamped out the disease. Meanwhile, the lackadaisical and incompetent American government largely ignored the problem, only reacting after the massive outbreak in Northern Italy had gotten media attention. Since the CDC had botched production of a testing kit, we had no means of recognizing that the disease was already spreading in our country, and the result was massive damage to America's economy and society. In effect, Americasuffered exactly the fate that had originally been intended for its Chinese rival.