No doubt there will be another novel and population increasing-ly deadly virus along shortly to that effect.Someone engineered the virus did they, pray tell why? To make a few hundred billion out of selling vaccines?
Err... against the global backdrop of the economic damage the virus caused which is surely in the trillions globally and so harming the economic prospects of basically every developed country in the world? 100 billion dollars is something you would class as a win in the face of that lot? I should think China had their economy and society fudged the hardest by it all, you reckon they released this deliberately?
About the only win I can think of is that adenoviral vector and mRNA vaccine technology will now be pursued more intensively as a way of treating or defending against other diseases at some point in the future.
Global destabilisation, as you described, would be the goal. Think big.
It’s been blamed on the Chinese, but not by me, ask Dr Fauci, he’d know.