One of the weird things that came out about Covid was that they were doing research on Gain of Function.... actively trying to make the disease more transmissible specifically in humans. That isn't a fantastic line of research.

Knowing that's a thing that large, well funded places are still researching, the idea that a more deadly disease that transmits through humans even easier could be created along with a vaccine to prevent the disease before it ever becomes public is way, way less unrealistic than I wish it were.

A handful of ultra wealthy folk could fully fund that in secret behind strict NDAs very easily. Hell, one of them could. The same people making policies that their AI should sex chat with kids to increase the kids usage time, visiting rape islands, saying only the extremely wealthy should vote... fuck, some of the Epstein files directly involve conversations about that topic. I think that's one of the conversations Bill Gates was part of. How to get rid of poverty in the the world by getting rid of the poor folk.

But you can't even discuss it with most people without seeming like a batshit insane, tinfoil hat conspiracy nut. Bit frustrating.