There's a case to be made that "China acted as-if this was the end of days," and western media went along with the narrative. For example, people were not falling dead in the streets from cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan China. Those were staged.
Example of the Propaganda in the UK: "CORONAVIRUS IS CAUSING PEOPLE TO DROP TO THE FLOOR IN THE STREET" (subtitle on video, article published January 24 2020), https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/infected-people-see...
I think it likely that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading much earlier than the official narrative allows. Competitors in the Wuhan Military Olympics seem to have caught #EarlyCovid (COVID-19 before it had a name):
"Congress is investigating whether the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a covid-19 superspreader event" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/23/congress-...
"During the two-week event, however, many of the international athletes noticed that something was amiss in the city of Wuhan. Some later described it as a “ghost town.” As the covid-19 pandemic took hold worldwide in early 2020, athletes from several countries — including France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg — claimed publicly they had contracted what they believed to be covid-19 at the games in Wuhan, based on their symptoms and how their illnesses spread to their loved ones." (emphasis added)
Australia probably had #EarlyCovid: https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1407130748373504002
cui bono - "who stands, or stood, to gain (from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it)?"
While China is certainly a beneficiary of their theatrics, why do the power structures in the rest of the world go along with the con job?
I got the blood test for SARS-CoV-2 immunity last week. If it's positive I would take this as confirming that I did actually have #EarlyCovid (COVID-19 before the lab test was available). I remember an odd headache in the December 2019/January 2020 period. This won't prove I had #EarlyCovid, but it's DATA AND SCIENCE to back up my inconsequential mussing about the Long Con [0] of our era.
@MichaelPSenger stands on his little twitter platform trying to point out the Long Covid Con. For example: https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/134832483816790835...
There's a lot of servings of crow [1] to go around, but no one in power will call out those most deserving.