Why would they make a fairly non-lethal virus, there’s abundant motive in the reasons you already stated…

Normalizing injections, authoritarianism, crush dissent, lower the birth rate, and increase dependence on the state. Throwing a wrench in the election didn’t hurt either.

One theory that’s been thrown around since the beginning that they’re just priming the pump for a more targeted virus that’s made worse by the shots.

Monkeypox is only going to get queers to get a shot. Covid got a significant portion of the world to submit to mrna.