Heh, I agree that China is a land of totalitarian oppression, but in fact their elites ARE in danger, as they are the ones boarding planes. C-19 has been brutal to the elites in the similarly awful regime in Iran, as an example. Now I agree that the CCP is quite happy to sacrifice its citizens for an advantage, in fact most countries will, and I agree that the CCP as it doesn't face elections every few years has a longer institutional knowledge and "patience" than other countries, but if C-19 was manufactured, there would be a series of markers in its RNA that just aren't present. This is a disease that evolved in a bat's bum, not a disease that was CRISPR snipped. As to vaccines, if there was such a thing, it would be next to impossible to keep secret. You might think that the CCP is monolithic and united, but it has factions like any other government of any other nation, and just like the incompetence of the CCP was eventually revealed, so would a secret vaccine. In short, they might be evil, but they aren't that dumb, and they aren't that smart.