That's an interesting hypothesis: The antivax/antimask/etc. movements as social media manipulation in preparation for a bioweapon.

What's interesting is the dynamic between the epi community and the security community. I'm not sure if I'm naming those correctly:

* The security community does a lot of threat modeling (how might we be attacked? how might we have been attacked?), which is helpful. That doesn't suggest they believe those things actually happened.

* The epi community views this as coded language for believing in bizarre conspiracy theories.