Just Politics

[DragonBear]

2. Look at the consequences of this thing (doesn't need 90% lethality to wreak havoc)

-- Huge damage to economies worldwide.
-- Massive social unrest (Guessing this is financed by the CCP of china)
-- Destabilization of entire cuntries is in process.

But the Chinese economy is fueled by their exports. Damage to the EU, and US shuts down the growth of the Chinese economy. Again I don't believe there's a mere 83K cases in China. Look at the steps they took to prevent reporting of cases early by the Chinese Medical Establishment. A 1b+ pop packed in some dense areas.

In 3rd world countries damaged, they won't be asking China to make them infrastructure loans. Disrupting China's Silk Road planning on the side. Instead they will be pre-occupied with Covid.

And if severe, it could cause social unrest in China. Or at the very least Xi, who was recently granted vast Maoist like powers, could have those powers rescinded by the CCP, if things got bad enuff. Someone has to take the fall.

There's no way China can release a virus upon their own population, export it to other countries they trade with, and not have it affect their own economy.

Also any "unpolished" biological agent would've been under very strict containment policies. Much more so than the "polished" ones. Chinese labs aren't backwards. Especially the state sponsored labs which are well funded.