Cabal bosses are so spiritually dead that I would not be surprised if their last-ditch plans for a Pyrrhic victory include nudging asteroid Apophis into a 2029 collision with earth, or into the "keyhole" that leads to a collision in 2036.
Covid-19 is failing, they need a new panic generator and the time to exploit it.
Yeah, EMP would be a lot easier, and would explain 10 days of darkness.
Unless they already have secret spaceships…