Let me spin the narrative, and inject a slight amount of conjecture into the connundrum.
Let's say, hypothetically, that this was a "first round" fired at an enemy. (bear with me here)
Run with that tangent, and then realize when the 'second round' comes, things are harder/worser. And that 'second round' is only because people got too lax in their complacency to think 'huh, that was nothin....' so now thing are worse and more people are sick. Then, the MadRed's over there in Chinlandia decide to unleash the ACTUAL second round, which is stronger/worser'er than the first.
The populace are already retarded (in the literal term, not derogatory term), constricted, and subdued. The economy is already slowed down/retarded, and the logistics of EVERYTHING in everyone's daily lives are being affected in one manner or another.
But then there are all the folk in the military, and law enforcement. They too have families, friends, and personal responsibilities. So not only are they hit 'front-and-center' with their jobs, but with their daily home-life as well. That HAS to take a toll. "Full Readiness" level is sorta/kinda re-established. Are they quite "at Full level" anymore?
All around, in/on a global scale?
So then the chinfluenza is unleashed in a V-III version.... because you can't tell me that this isn't a weaponized virus that magically appeared out of nowhere and magically mutated itself into what the V-I was to begin with. Remember the actual theft from the Canadian BioMedical lab right here in Winnipeg a few years ago? Remember how it was actually Covid that was actually stolen by actual Chinese 'technicians' whom were then actually expelled from this country?
The question I'm asking is, seeing as how 'they' are mapping how this is working, how it is spreading, and how society in general are reacting to it, and then we are TELLING THE WORLD what we're doing and how we're abating it and how it is progressing by daily 'Updates' in the media... they are getting their pieces in order and location, for yet another 'release' or 'accident' or 'wet-market-spill' or whatever you may want to disguise the trigger as......
Hypothetically speaking, of course.