IMO the reason for the initial panic and overblown government response was that they all knew it was engineered in a lab. They didn't want the public to know that because then they'd get all the blame, revolts, etc.
Turns out it wasn't the super lethal bioweapon they feared, but after stoking the flames and inciting panic that much, they couldn't walk back their claims without looking foolish and hysterical. They kept pushing exaggerated dangers for years to save face.
I'm with you until this part:
Turns out it wasn't the super lethal bioweapon they feared, but after stoking the flames and inciting panic that much, they couldn't walk back their claims without looking foolish and hysterical. They kept pushing exaggerated dangers for years to save face.
They deliberately used PCR tests dialed up to 40 cycles so everyone would be "infected". They ran scare stories for years. This was because they wanted lockdowns and the ability to inject as many people as possible. Notice they didn't change the "vaccines" to match the current strains and used the original bioweapon strain for 2-3 years? That wasn't their ego. It was malevolence.
If it wasn't deliberate, they could have just told the truth, that the virus became far less deadly as it mutated (which is what viruses do, they want the host to survive so he can infect more people, not kill the host immediately). The people who got sick in early 2020, a lot of them died or got severely ill. Three years later it's weaker than the flu.
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