Hidden motives behind the Coronavirus panic?

Might be parenthetical to the thread title, but maybe it isn’t:

Jesus, SK. The thing's over an hour long. How many of us do you think have the time to sit through something like that? There's got to be some cliff notes.

If there's a "conspiracy" going on regarding COVID-19, I'd like to see some actual evidence to show who is responsible, why and what the hell they're gaining out of it. You realize for these theoretical massive international leftist conspiracies to work that there must of necessity be hundreds if not thousands of "co-conspirators". How likely is that that they're all staying silent about it and this one guy has blown their cover?

Versus, for example, a bunch of incompletely informed politicians petrified of being found  inadequately prescient and overreacting to worst-case scenarios that are now being shown to be wrong? People can actually screw up without it being a conspiracy............................Luca

Oh. Sorry.

I thought we were starting to go off the deep end with conspiracy theories and Davos and the Trilateral commission and all that..............Luca

That being said, the protests against the economic lockdowns are clearly being directed by Vladimir Putin. Or the Bilderbergs.

I still haven't figured out what spooked Trump & his advisors back in March to recommend shutting down the country, a move that you could see he regretted and wanted to backtrack on just 10 days or so later. But I now have a theory.

Tom Cotton was crucified for his declaration that the virus came from a Chinese lab, the left called it a fringe or conspiracy theory over & over. Further evidence is proving Senator Cotton to be correct, but that begs the question, where did he get his information? If Senator Cotton learned of this from our intelligence agencies, then most likely those same agencies informed President Trump.

So imagine President Trump 7 or 8 weeks ago, with information that a virus from a Chinese lab is now in the US. We wouldn't have known if it was some simple flu-like virus or if it was a biological weapon. If it was the latter, then we were for all intents & purposes at war and who knows how dangerous of a biological weapon it could have been. So the reaction to shut things down would have made sense, as was the following reaction a week or so later when it became apparent that this was just a natural virus and not a man-made killing machine.

My hunch is that the president and his administration had a legitimate concern that we had been attacked.

Let the eat ice-cream.

If don't think there are powerful interests hoping to transform America into a 24/7 360 degree surveillance state for the sake of our "safety" you're fooling yourself. This is scary stuff.