An increasing number of Dissent Right sites are publishing articles depicting Covid, real or politically constructed, as bio-political weapon. That makes sense of the whole scene, with the lab leak hypothesis even getting mainstream discussion now, and no further evidence, if there was any to begin with, being advanced for the bat soup idea.
Naturally, if this disease was being developed in a lab through gain-of function research, the question to be asked is, what purpose? The mainstream response, if one is given, and discussions typically do not go there, is that it was necessary to create this Dr Frankenstein monster, just in case Nature did, so that Nature could be beaten to the punch. However, many have pointed out that the type of virus has characteristics not likely to emerge in Nature, a case made in the Wade article that broke the silence on the issue. As well, Covid-19 has delivered so many things that the ruling elite have wanted - the end of Trump via fraudulent postal votes among other things, right through to ending liberal democracy and getting people socially conditioned for CCP life, that free thinkers would be suspicious on political grounds alone, beyond biochemistry. Here is more.