Has anybody else read and understood why Gamestop had a short squeeze in January and why other “meme stocks” appear to be squeezing lately? It’s fascinating to read, but more importantly, studying on it made me realize that the people who stood to make the greatest gains from COVID-19’s “deadly nature” were hedge funds.
Imagine, if you will, betting against a company and making billions if said company fails. What better way to make a company like GME or AMC (the movie theater chain) fail than to spread utter panic about why such facilities are vectors for virus transmission?
How do you get the world to follow suit? Not with politics. Politics always chases money and there isn’t a politician in this world who isn’t involved with Wall Street in some way or another. The money starts with the people who stand to gain the most from the downfall of businesses - especially when their downfalls become more predictable.
In other words, billions (trillions, maybe?) were gained by the downfall of such companies… I can think of no motive greater than that for the literal destruction of society.