I was saying that in February. Then I realized that you can't have a manufactured crisis continue when the facts are known. Once this mostly cools off, we will find that some huge percentage of the world's population already had the virus and had no or few symptoms.

Apparently never. We have a long way to go as a species.

It's clearly an April Fool's joke gone awry. They couldn't have meant anything other than 1.21 Jiggawatts*Second to split a water molecule. It must have been late, and whoever wrote it and whoever accepted the submission must have been drunk or high. Probably both. The only likely explanation.