The first one is literally happening. The governor in Ohio(I believe it was Ohio)literally spelled it out. If you are in hospice and the contract corona, regardless of which one kills you, corona is being put at the culprit for cause of death.
The final numbers won't be known for a while, but one test is determining the "normal" deaths and comparing that to actual deaths as a check on the reported figures - while some deaths are probably being misreported, many Corona deaths go unreported because the victim never gets to a hospital or the death is attributed to pneumonia or some other cause, when COVID was the primary culprit.
So far "excess deaths" exceed reported deaths in many areas.
How is the second one a conspiracy theory? It’s a legitimate possibility. A conspiracy would be saying the Chinese government cooked it up and intentionally released it. Then threw three Russian scientists (or doctors?) out of windows and shot a scientist in Pittsburgh and the hit man who killed him.
Conspiracy theories go big or not at all.
And yes I know he can’t stand me and has me blocked.
It's a legitimate possibility, but one with no real evidence, and it's being used to attempt to deflect blame from the piss poor WH effort.
It's also irrelevant, whether it was transmitted by bats or escaped from a lab studying corona viruses.
It's doubtful it was a bioweapon, because contagious diseases simply don't make sense as weapons for anyone except "end of the world" fanatical terrorists.
We now know the "Chinese travel ban" was also irrelevant, the virus was in Europe and on both US coasts by the time the ban went into effect.