FWIW, this is my current wild guess about what happened (not original to me. DavidMac has been offering a similar scenario):
Yes, the cov-19 thing was quite probably created as a gain-of-function crime (a crime as any such work should be seen) at the Fort Detrick biowarfare labs in the US. From there it escaped into the surrounding community - whether accidentally or by deliberate release, who knows?
As it became apparent to relevant deep-state playerz in the US that this had happened (in 2019), and it was giving rise to an outbreak in that area, they panicked a bit, but only for a while. They then cooked up a strategy of desperation, to suppress public knowledge of the US outbreak and so keep the cat in the bag, whilst at the same time sending samples of the virus, via USAmerican military participants, to the World Military Games gathering in Wuhan, where the US deep-state also has irons in the fire at the local biowarfare lab there.
So they knew that by pulling this stunt, they could sell a fake-meme into their creatures in the ever compliant Western mediawhorey; a fairy-tale that it all started in Wuhan, due to dirty Chinese eating habits, and got bad there, due to authoritarian Chinese secrecy and failure to warn the world early enough.
Meanwhile, the bought-WHO, with its current thoroughly-corrupt big cheese in charge, did its bit by classifying the cov-19 outbreak as a global pandemic, thus triggering cooperative - to US plans - governments everywhere to follow the frantic over-reaction recommendations pointing us all towards panic, stampede, crypto martial law, and enhanced obedience. (Sweden didn’t comply, and so got a thorough slagging from the whores even before their actual upshot was at all clear.)
All this, because something drastic had to be done really urgently about the horrifying giga-problems of the world economy, and particularly of the giant bloodsucking squid economy of the Anglozionist empire; bigger problems than economic history has ever generated before, and all about to fall over spontaneously, if something wasn’t done to bring them down in a controlled demolition, which would at least be to the advantage of the - appropriately fore-warned - vulture psychopath gics of their own faction, slavering over the loot prospects as it all comes down.
I imagine that there’s so much unrest within the US home polity at the moment, because this is a sauve qui peut stunt initiated by just one faction of the several factions of competing crime famiglie of the US gickate, and those not in on the ground floor are kicking up about everything being torn down, without them getting the timely memo warning what was coming, for which they should prepare, for both gated-community defences, and opportunistic vulture-looting operations of their own. When empires accelerate into their terminal collapses, this sort of internecine civil strife seems to be inevitable.
As is clear, no single group of playerz is fully in charge of this omnishambles: lot’s of plotters, lots of band-waggon-jumping spontaneous chancers, general panic, fog-of-war (against death, this time!) and masses of opportunity for looting and long-term power-grabbing, as the whole bloody mess unravels.