What's your dream in the meantime?
My fiction story starts with a flashback to the POTUS accusing China of releasing Covid19 as a bio weapon. This time around however, it was exactly what they did.
With many millions of people suspicious of government intervention and big pharma, the body count is horrendous and the USA are firmly in failed State territory.
The same happens in many other developed countries and when the situation is stable again, the population aged 50+ is so scarce that the new Eco fascist regimes are now predominant and decide to commit permanently to that sort of population control.