Of course the virus is real and was not created by governments. But the threat has been there for several decades and nothing or very little was done while zillions were poured into useless military hardware which was never used and never will be .
THE threat to 'our liberty' and way of life at least in the eyes of the West was the big bad red menace, who in fact were too poor and too few for any war whereas it turned out to be accidental actions by some Chinese peasants