This ain't just ordinary flu, though, is it?. Ordinary flu kills a certain amount of the population. Those that are frail and infirm.
This is a genetically modified virus designed to cull certain members of the human race.
Well....yes. It WAS specifically designed to cull the old and infirm. A "perfect" virus would be one that would spread without anyone knowing about it (like one where symptoms don't show up for a couple weeks after you are infected). Although a perfect virus would be much more lethal.
17+% of the Chinese population is old and lives on the government's dime. 17% of 1.386 billion people is roughly 240 million old people. Can you fathom what it costs to care for 240 million people who basically do not produce anything FOR the country? I bet the Chinese government fathoms it very well.
If it kills a few hundred million other Chinese....Meh...more where that came from, we have more than enough to spare.
If it kills a few, or better yet, several hundred million people from other nations...
If it destroys the economy of all the world's leading countries....
Meh..all the better for China as a world power.
By the way...I'm not this brutal and not my sentiment on the elderly (I still read the Bible), but I certainly believe a brutal Chinese government would do this on purpose