Almost every action is a reaction to something and I think COVID19 in some sense stopped these next move chains and wiped many big plans and now it seems there is this confusing restart phase and some parties may try to take advantage of this struggle.
I don't think anyone intentionally released COVID19 in intent to restart the whole world but I don't believe this would have started naturally from a bat bite either. Was some entity building a weapon or just doing some other research, I don't want to speculate about that but for me this virus seems like something that could have escaped from a lab.
That's an interesting perspective for sure. I could see that.
The whole thing just had that feel to it IMHO.