What would be the purpose of lying about it? Did it benefit our governments to put everyone in lockdown? I honestly don't know. I don't know much about economics. I suspect it only furthered the distance between the rich and poor and some of the rich definitely made sure they benefited from it.
But- what is the conspiracy here? Do you suspect something dodgy about the vaccines? Do you think it was economically motivated? Do you think it gave our governments more powers to control/monitor us? Track and trace and all that? Paranoia and threat are very good tools to make a population subservient.
Personally, I wouldn't put anyting past our governments. But, I do believe it was real. I suspect it was around a lot longer than the reported outbreak. My parents caught something really nasty around the Christmas time before from someone who had just been on a cruise holiday. It bore very similar symptoms and they said it was like nothing they'd ever experienced.
Someone I worked with was very in to the whole conspiracy thing. They used to call it 'co-fib'. They didn't get vaccinated- obviously, which I don't really blame them being suspicious of. Still- they got it eventually. I fairly meanly changed the subject though. I felt like- you can't really complain about something you've been saying doesn't exist for so long!
The vaccines weren't approved for widespread use in humans. We only learned after the recent years of human experimentation that the vaccines are known to cause health issues in a small percentage of the population of healthy individuals (research regarding this tended to be suppressed). The laws put in place did give gov'ts more control. I don't like that people were forced to take it or not allowed to go anywhere. Military and hospitals lost a substantial amount of workers by forcing them to take it or get fired.
They lied about how deadly it was. It's less deadly than the flu. It incentivized hospitals to lie about the cause of death. Placing COVID in the top three causes would grant the hospital a good payout.
COVID caused people to treat others inhumanely just because they didn't want to get the vaccine. A lot of nurses quit when the new flu vaccine came out [can't remember if it was against swine flu, bird flu, or something else] in the 2000s. It wasn't well tested. Guess what? It still doesn't prevent you from getting most versions of the flu and it doesn't reduce symptoms. Complete fucking waste of time.
What I'm pissed off about is that the gov't lied about who caused COVID. It WAS Wuhan lab that released COVID. And they only recently admitted it. What's fucked up is that Faucci was funding that shit. I hate the concept of reverse engineering viruses, making more deadly variants, and then creating vaccines for that. Viruses in the wild rarely mutate in the way they do in labs. It's unrealistic and a waste of taxpayer money. A single nucleotide changed often renders vaccines completely useless... and viruses mutate often when it doesn't immediately kill its host [COVID doesn't kill their host so it's easy for it to propagate].
COVID is real. It does kill people. But not at the rate that was claimed. The high majority of people that died were already massively unhealthy. It was just the straw that broke the camel's back.