My initial thought was that variants were just exaggerated nonsense... but then I saw this:

An interview with Professor Knut Wittkowski - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H40njXeT8og&feature=emb_title

Main points:

*Respiratory viruses left to their own devices would spread through the population to reach heard immunity in around 6-8 weeks.

*The COVID-19 vaccines take around 9 months to develop (ETA for AstraZeneca vaccine or new strains is next Fall), while the virus itself takes around 3 months to mutate.

*Each mutation of COVID-19 becomes more similar to genetic code that is already in humans, and once a degree of similarity is reached then the human immune system will not know how to make antibodies against it.

So if it is a bioweapon from Wuhan, they killed a bunch of us by locking us down, allowed the virus to reach a form our bodies don't know how to deal with, and then, as we see now, 'people can go back to school, oh, businesses can open up now, we need to get ppl back to work, back to work'