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It couldn't be because no one gives a shit about what he's saying so he's been desperately moving goalposts because he thinks the WHY is the problem and not the WHO.
After all, David is our lord and savior, a true and honest hero who will save us from the deadly asian coof with his statistics from fringe studies and takes so generic everyone's already agreed about it two months ago.
They're not fringe studies. They're actually quite mainstream scientific literature on the virus. Everything was readily-available with just a few searches. It was just a matter of connecting the dots.
Seriously. I see people fall with seizures in China? I hypothesize that they must have some sort of neurological problem caused by the virus.
So, I open a Google window, and I put in "SARS Brain" or "SARS neurological" without quotation marks.
Let's see what comes up:
Paper after paper describing the neuroinvasive potential of betacoronaviruses, witnessed both in the 2003 SARS outbreak and in this one.
New Study Shows SARS Can Infect Brain Tissue
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), by its very name, indicates a disease of the respiratory tract. But SARS can also infiltrate brain tissue, causing significant central nervous system problems, according to an article in the Oct. 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available...
www.sciencedaily.com

Breaking News! Coronavirus Can Also Attack The Nervous System, Causing Neurological Conditions And Even Viral Encephalitis - Thailand Medical News
As the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is an extremely new virus that is fast spreading globally and wreaking havoc, there have been no prior verified studies on it and the medical community is only just beginning to discover new facets about it day by day. As the coronavirus itself is also evolving...

I'm not saying "Oh gee whiz I'm a super genius for knowing how to use Google!"
I just did what IT people do all the time, except for a virus.
It was actually retardedly easy. It just took a long time to cross-reference everything and figure out which search queries I should use to find more.
You do have to think about this logically, though, as in, what parts of the body can the virus touch?
So, we know ACE2 is the entry receptor used by the virus. Which organs and tissues have ACE2 receptors? Let's Google it.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an acute infectious disease that spreads mainly via the respiratory route. A distinct coronavirus (SARS-CoV) has been identified as the aetiological agent of SARS. Recently, a metallopeptidase named angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has been identified as the functional receptor for SARS-CoV. Although ACE2 mRNA is known to be present in virtually all organs, its protein expression is largely unknown. Since identifying the possible route of infection has major implications for understanding the pathogenesis and future treatment strategies for SARS, the present study investigated the localization of ACE2 protein in various human organs (oral and nasal mucosa, nasopharynx, lung, stomach, small intestine, colon, skin, lymph nodes, thymus, bone marrow, spleen, liver, kidney, and brain). The most remarkable finding was the surface expression of ACE2 protein on lung alveolar epithelial cells and enterocytes of the small intestine. Furthermore, ACE2 was present in arterial and venous endothelial cells and arterial smooth muscle cells in all organs studied. In conclusion, ACE2 is abundantly present in humans in the epithelia of the lung and small intestine, which might provide possible routes of entry for the SARS-CoV. This epithelial expression, together with the presence of ACE2 in vascular endothelium, also provides a first step in understanding the pathogenesis of the main SARS disease manifestations.
Well, ACE2 receptors are in the lungs and the blood vessels and the gut, so in theory, the virus could cause pneumonia, vasculitis, and GI infections. Anywhere else? How about the neurons?
Yes, it's in the neurons, too. Could explain the neurotropism and the weird seizures and anosmia and shit.
Huh, interesting. Let's keep querying. COVID-19 gut infection.

COVID-19: 'Digestive symptoms are common'
New research suggests that digestive symptoms, including a loss of appetite and diarrhea, are more common in people with COVID-19 than doctors had thought.

Gee, that's interesting. It seems to be able to infect the intestines, too.
Do you see how easy it is to piece all this together?
It's not a matter of difficulty, exactly. Only of weaponized autism plus time.
Every new finding generates a new set of keywords to examine. You just have to think logically and connect the dots. If it can hurt the kidneys, then what do the kidneys do in response? If it can hurt the liver, what would we see, then?
Seriously, did you not pay attention to everyone going China Lied People Died, David? Was that really your hottest 'geopolitical' take?
Also what kind of exceptional individual says a Country gets crippled, and at the same sentence it was all part of their plan to incite war.
Oh, no. Nobody planned on any of this. Hardly. It fucked China's economy so bad, the whole next decade will be a living hell for them, especially as their trading partners start severing ties over the low quality of their masks and testing kits and try becoming more economically-independent supply-chain-wise to prevent these supply issues from occurring again.
If anything, I think this was a laboratory accident and something leaked out in Wuhan that shouldn't have.
However, that does not preclude the PRC from opportunistically trying to flip it back around and make it look like the US is responsible. That's something that they're actively trying to do:

China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic
After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus.