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As to <<seems to me, as a weapon covid is a fizzer...>>
to expand on the thought, that a weapon would be more of a killer than Covid(s) has so far appears to be. Anything less than Covid lethality would be a flu. Covid appears to be neither a flu nor a weapon, and that is the big problem.
<<Sweden, arguably, did well against CoVid relative to almost all other nations in 2020, whether by total cases, death, or GDP.>>
Meaning there is a reaction function that got Sweden through 2020.
I am not aware of any other nation reacting in the Swedish way. Assuming folks are equally intelligent everywhere, then we accept that folks elsewhere did not invent the Swedish way w/i own domain for reasons, and in the aggregate did not choose to follow the Swedish example, also for reasons. Why?
Social-political / Econo-political?
In any case, re <<Well, other than the bit about 6.9 million people (so far) being killed by the Gates/China/Fauci et al virus... ?>>
Let us use the number 4.26M death. Using the Swedish death rate and w/ global population at 7.8B folks, would be 11M death by the math.
The reason we are at 4.26M is presumably because a lot of death were not counted, counted wrong, or the Swedish rate is on the high side, or something else, including China only reported 4,600 Covid deaths instead of anything approaching what the Swedish expression would have meant, 0.0014% or 2M.
The China way, arguably, on the basis on same benchmarks, is superior to the Swedish way, but alas, generically admitted by China re all China systems and approaches, only applicable in China.
As to <<Means that IF you wanted to use the virus as a weapon... you might be expected to adopt reaction-functions that AMPLIFY the impacts... or direct them in unique ways... or otherwise, simply exploit the fact as "never let a crisis go to waste"... >>
... undoubtedly the Covid had been and continues to be politicised and geo-politisized by many domains, and I am guessing that such is unhelpful internationally and domestically, for the virus doesn't care about politics. However that does not mean that folks who weaponised a disease should not be called out, be they blue or red.
Re <<Who would benefit from disrupting stability ? Who has been actively working at disrupting stability ?>>
One possibility, that folks who wish to continue business as usual do not typically disrupt stability, and folks who want what they do not wish to work for always do disruption?
The disruptive trade / technology / ideology / etc attacks against China came out of the blue, then red, as did the Covid virus attack enhancement, and immediately weaponised by red and blue suspects from Bloomberg, WAPO, NYT, WSJ, Reuters, Fox, ... CNN, as if all reading from a common script, likely because they were and are reading from a common script.
Turns out that China did not lose the reaction-function plan borne of the 2003 SARS episode, unlike Britain, a member of the like-minded, doing what Britain did because its emergency plan was misplaced, conveniently or otherwise Message 33427233
I can string together a conspiracy theory as close to the mark as most, but reckon we best wait for the red and blue to do what 'they' are supposed to do and see what 'they' come up with as an issue for 2024 edition.cnn.com
Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt
At the same time, Covid is assuredly not over, and China is hunkering down for the LT, constructing quarantine facilities all over the place where transient folks can be sorted. Will the wall hold? Dunno. Agnostic. The Plan is certainly big.
Here in HK we are in a big camp called Hong Kong, Kowloon, Lantau and Lamma. I hangout in my corner known as Stanley.
The key going forward remains vaccine (one that works) and cure.
Who knows, maybe the burn-through approach can work and show the way. The vaccines are more suspiciously doubtful by the daily reports.
There is hope, that Covid-19 evolves into 'just another cold', and I am hanging on to this one hope much more than am on vaccines and cures, social measures etc etc
