What if
What if Chyna knew they virus wasn't very deadly since the beginning. Essentially played along and created early 'optics' for the global viral media to get panicked about. The welding people inside their apartments, dragging them away in vans, and other horror stories possibly could have been purposely designed to amp up the fear factor for the rest of us.
Hello WHO, hello Fauci, hello lockdown, goodbye Trump. What if that was their part in the plan. Buy up the mask supplies, lock down their own cities in domino fashion to crank this thing up to 11.
When vax is available they can force their citizens to take it, and claim 'see it worked'. I'm getting the tingly spidey sense.