Here's my "conspiracy theory" about COVID, just for shiggles:
Yes, it came out of the lab in Wuhan. No, they didn't release it on purpose. Yes, they were (and probably still are) working on developing a coronavirus-based bioweapon. No, COVID-19 wasn't the final product.
The gain-of-function research was geared toward developing a mechanism to make coronaviruses jump species, but not so they could detonate a COVID bomb in the Gulf Stream that would kill puppies and kitties along with the people. The species jumping was just a test to see whether they could add any feature to the virus. Just to see if they could teach it new tricks of any kind, and species-jumping was the 'new trick' they tested on it first.
The first problem was, it worked. It did indeed jump species. The second problem was, it's fucking China. Everything there is Made... In China. Including their PPE, other safety equipment, the fucking virologists... fuck me, the only thing that worked the way they intended it to was the money funding the monkey farm; know why the money worked? Because the money was Made In The U.S.A. We paid for this pandemic. Without our knowledge or consent, we funded the fucking thing.
But all the rest of it was Made In China. So of course containment failed. Mao-revering little retards, dressed in garbage, tinkering with Captain Trips. Of fucking course it led to a global pandemic, because how could it not?
As for the funding? Fauci. Think he didn't know what they were doing over there? His emails show that he did. His emails also show that he knew masks were just theater, yet he explicitly denied that in front of Congress. He's a fucking fraud. His emails prove it.