I've been thinking the same, would explain why it's had such a profound effect in the specific places it has.
>China: [CCP] power players could be taken out en mass and we'd never even know.
>Iran: Self-explanatory, the [mullahs]. How the hell did it spread here so fast?
>Italy: [The Vatican], lots of old power dating back to Roman times
>WA and CA: [Big tech] HQs, [DS] havens
>NYC: [DS] political center of the universe
Seems unusually targeted from my perspective.