Atsushi Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa, “Unnatural Evolutionary Processes of SAR-CoV-2 Variants and Possibility of Deliberate Natural Selection,” have set out the case that more recent variants of Covid, such as Omicron, are likely to be lab creations, since the molecular structure and order of mutations is not something to be expected in nature. There was argument in the past that the original alpha version of Covid was a product of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but the new hypothesis, while consistent with the original Covid origin scenario, raises new issues not discussed in the scientific paper, which is primarily concerned with a study of the mutations.
It raises the possibility that variants of Covid are not being generated by natural evolution, but are continuously being released from the bioweapons labs. If this is so, then nothing would prevent a release of a new Covid variant just in time for the US election to repeat the events of 2020. It is possible that this variant may be a more serious one, since a larger proportion of the population are sick of he Covid business, and it will take bodies in the street, as in 1918, to scare them into submission.