Welcome to the forum. Now that you're all caught up, you will know what real agony is like waiting week to week. Your ideas don't sound crazy at all. In fact, you're in good company with a number of folks who suspect something similar, if not the same. I suspect most of the same things that you do, with the exception of him causing the explosion that sets everything in motion. (He was in jail and the outbreak was world-wide) Other than that, you and I are betting on the same horse.