Not in China. In China, you ask for Xbox/PS5 games and they ask if you want a small binder (1kg of random discs) for 60rmb, medium binder (2.5kg) for 100rmb or large binder (5kg) for 200rmb. If you want a specific game, they get annoyed and mutter low volume curses while digging through a bin full of discs that's about a meter long, meter wide, meter deep before they find it and say, "8 yuan for just this!"
I'm 50/50 on it being a bioweapon gone wrong or an initial failed attack followed by Chinese counter-strike.
If it was an engineered bioweapon, it was pretty crap. The death rate of COVID settled at not much higher than a strong influenza outbreak.
That depends on what the objective the bioweapon was supposed to achieve, if it was economic disruption, turning public opinion and an attack on credibility, than it did its job. If the death rate was extreme it would have constituted an act of war and a war crime, the consequences of which would have been way more far reaching.
I guess you is right, it it had been a strain of airborne rabies, that would have been extreme.
It settled at strong influenza after killing probably 10 million people and that's with US and European population density
