is it possible that covid-19 is some kind of experiment?

i'm purposefully delving into the realm of conspiracy here, with the aim to ask the question of whether it's a valid hypothesis or not. i'm still of the opinion that you need to evaluate questions of these sorts, rather than write them off as "conspiracy theories" off hand, even as i agree that most of the genre of "conspiracy theory", and a genre is what it is, is easily discredited, often by basic logic or appeals to elementary science.

i insist that the evaluation of the question remains necessary, using something approaching the scientific method. let's be sciencey all the time, not just when it fits our preconceptions. so, what evidence do we have before us to support the hypothesis that this is some kind of experiment?

it should be noted immediately that there was actually a simulation performed by john hopkins mere months before this happened, where they ran through a detailed scenario of a global pandemic. now, we're being told that the president ignored warnings created by the simulation, which is somewhat of a tight timeline, in truth. but, to me, that's just curious. so, the institution that is largely managing the mortality statistics in the country did a simulation for something similar to this, just months before it actually happened? hrmmmn.

then, when it hit the country they pretended it wasn't there - they claimed that there weren't any cases because the travel restrictions had kept the cases out, and there therefore wasn't any reason to test anybody, which was immediately blatantly ridiculous to everybody. it is so blatantly ridiculous, that this is maybe easier to explain by assigning an intent to the government to actually allow it to spread before reacting to it. certainly, the actual outcome of their policy failure, intentional or not, was in fact for the virus to spread undetected for quite a long while, before there was adequate testing in place to measure it.

then, in reaction to the onset of community spread, which they seem to have facilitated, they issue a total lockdown on everything, a policy that will actually have the effect of maximizing the amount of harm the virus can do, by slowing down immunity levels. what these economic lockdowns are doing is also locking in the virus' most dangerous phase, allowing it to maximize the number of high impact carriers through the corridors of necessary commerce, and dragging out the effects for months past a point where immunity would have naturally reduced the spread. the result is a more sustained exposure to vulnerable communities that goes on for a longer time and consequently has a deeper impact. again: intentionally or not, the longterm effects of these economic lockdowns is going to be that vulnerable populations get hit harder for longer. so, just measuring the situation by effects, it would seem that the government is actually trying to draw this out.

then, bizarrely, the president shifts his press briefings to being an infomercial for an immunosuppressant used to treat sepsis, which is a common complication during the late stages of covid-19. he's even pushing it as a prophylactic. they're apparently doing trials on young people in detroit to see if it works in warding off the disease, with an apparent intent to ramp up production and distribution. but, this drug is used to reduce the immune response in auto-immune disorders. giving it to healthy people is going to make them more susceptible to the disease, by weakening their immune response, which is what the drug's medical use is. other countries are beginning to fall in line on this, as well. if this gets mass distributed, we'll have another example of the government acting to facilitate the spread and severity of the disease, by incompetence or malice.

it's all adding up to kind of a spooky deduction - it seems like the intent here isn't actually to stop this thing at all.

what are they doing, then? is it some kind of exercise in eugenics, where they're trying to offload a large amount of the health system's deadweight load? if this virus does it's job in drastically reducing the population of very old people and very medically reliant people, you're going to see a different health care system when it's done, one that has a lot more resources, all of a sudden.

is it a perverse experiment to see how we actually react?

is it the beginning phase of a change in how western governments operate?

so, i think these are valid questions here that are worth further examination.