If this is a weapon...it stinks. Hardly virulent. Would be better off just spreading existing pathogens around that are actually deadly.
Got out too soon - they wanted to wait until this fall...
Combined with the media it made a very good weapon, coercing leadership in countries around the globe to shut down their economies and cause supply chain issues galore. Imagine if they had combined it with an attack on Taiwan..
This was an attempt at a biological weapon by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and like all chemical and biological weapons it is of little use against a prepared and trained adversary and generally causes more problems for the ones that use them rather than for their foe. In your words, chemical and biological weapons "stink."
The Wuhanic Plague was not ready for prime time, as the CCP had not developed a vaccine. Given the difficulties of developing a vaccine for a normal coronavirus, which they were using as the delivery vehicle, they probably focused their efforts on a vaccine for the payload which is some kind of viral pneumonia such as a Hanta virus. Those efforts have been obviously unsuccessful.
It is unlikely that this was a deliberate release, For those familiar with the Three Stooges, this has all the earmarks of Larry telling Moe to have Curly take out the trash.
However, once it was released, and knowing the devastating immediate impacts on unprepared populations, the CCP deliberately set out to spread it around the world for three months, until the carnage in the Hubei province could no longer be concealed.
The SARS-CoV-1 virus also originated in CCP bio weapons lab as well, and in 2003, 81 base pairs (27 genes) located near the corona disappeared. Subsequently, SARS-CoV-1 died out.
On May 5, 2020, Arizona State University's Genomic Facility reported that 382 of the most recent versions of COVID-19 (out of more than 16,000 examined to date) are missing the same 81 base pairs (27 genes) at the same location as SARS-CoV-1.
These 27 genes are most likely all or part of the "Bondo" use to fuse the coronavirus carriers in SARS- CoV-1 and COVID-19 with their deadly payloads.
It took about one year for SARS-CoV-1 to start to fall apart and another year for it to completely disappear.
Based on a release date of October 1, 2019, it has taken eight months for COVID-19 to start to fall apart. While infection rates and death tolls are dropping worldwide, death tolls are falling faster, indicating that COVID-19 is weakening. In another eight month it is likely to be gone altogether, since it does not have a natural host other than humans.
The primary difference between the worldwide effects of SARS-CoV-1 and COVID-19 is that the CCP was much for efficient, ruthless, and faster at spreading COVID-19 around the world than they were SARS-CoV-1