COVID-19 was a terrible bioweapon.
Ideal bioweapons:
*target military-aged populations preferentially
*produce death, or incapacitation for weeks in a majority of cases
*are stable enough that you can vaccinate your own populations against them, or protect with antibiotic regimen
Examples: Q fever, anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, staph B endotoxin.
COVID-19 did none of these things.
-fatalities primarily in end-of-life populations or those with serious comorbidities
-vast majority of those infected were not killed or incapacitated
-highly unstable and mutable virus, no effective way to vaccinate non-target populations
COVID-19 was almost assuredly a lab leak of an intermediate work product of a live virus intended to be used on bat populations to improve bat resistance to coronaviruses in general. This is what the lead scientist on the project was trying to produce, and the net effect of the most common ‘final form’ of COVID during the pandemic, the Omicron variant. It did for human what the goal was for bats: highly transmissible, much less pathogenic but able to produce an effective immune response. Once Omicron was the dominant strain, hospitalizations dropped dramatically.