Originally Posted by
admartz
Seems to me that natural evolutionary processes are a simpler explanation than an international conspiracy between multiple governments, the CDC, the WHO, the Lancet, and NJEM to fabricate a SARS-CoV-2 variant before vaccination starts in case they need to cover up low vaccination rates in the future. Especially considering mutations significant enough to evade immunity from vaccination either pose no fitness cost to the virus or, in the case of Delta, actually improve the fitness of the virus.
I especially dislike conspiracy theories that require hyper-competence on the part of the government in order to execute the conspiracy in the first place or hide it afterwords.