I find it difficult to believe in big conspiracies. It gives the perpetrators too much credit in their ability to competently carry it out. At the global scale, I'm sure there are people doing exactly what you have laid out. However, any success they may have will be limited and poorly done.
I think it is mostly gross incompetence that led the governments to bungle COVID. There was a hysteria from the population expecting the governments to do something, so they did. The governments were poorly matched to the task of managing a pandemic. They listened to "experts" with financial incentives rather than perform any due diligence.
From the beginning, we knew the fatality rate was less than 1%. Even if the vaccines were effective in slowing down the rate of infection, it only dragged out what would have been over in a few weeks. Personally, I did not get the vax. However, I did get infected. I got an overnight fever and a cough that lasted a week. While some may have had worse symptoms, the majority would have fared similarly to my experience.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that had to slow down the spread of infection to give the pharmaceuticals enough time to come up with a BS vaccine to sell. The best way they could do this was by incentivizing people to stay home and businesses to stay closed. It's hard to say no to free money.
The depopulation narrative falls flat in that we are heading into negative population growth in the coming decades. USA, Europe, China, and other developed nations are aging populations. In our lifetimes, we may see the peak number before we start going back to 7 Billion people.
In short, there's some truth to all of this. But I think it's just attributed to overall gross incompetence by the scientists, governments, and population rather than a cast of supervillains.
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