If the world comes to believe the virus was man-made and deliberately released, if it comes to that, the West will fight to make sure only China is blamed. There's a reasonable expectation of success here, since a segment of the West already believe this is a Chinese bio-weapon. Also, China doesn't control the international mainstream media.
(We have heard many stories of China's 'malign' actions and influence; how many people are aware of the narrative that China's rise was allowed to happen by the global elites of the time because it helped prop up Western money and financial assets? How many people are aware of China's major role in support of the world system immediately after the 2008 crisis? How many people are aware of the narrative that a hostile China is a major threat to Western asset values and power, thus the West has every incentive to attack China?)
OK, let's say this fails. The world now believes the West worked with China to release the virus. Even this would be survivable, and I'd say easily so, by the deep state.
(BTW, we have proof of the deep state's existence. Presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren has publicized that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers once asked her if she wanted to be an insider or outsider. As an insider, she would have help but would only be able to say certain things. As an outsider, she could say anything she wanted but would be on her own. What this must mean is that there is a club whose membership is well-defined, who put loyalty to each other above professed beliefs. Also, such a club can't function without a top-down leadership and coherent agenda based on final decisions. Such agendas are, of course, secret.)
The revelation (as undesirable as it would be from the deep state's perspective) would be survivable because the crime can always be blamed on individuals and groups, rather than the system as a whole. The Great Depression was blamed on bankers and speculators. World War II was blamed on fascists; no mention was made of the West's desire to suppress and deprive Germany (via war reparations during the interwar years) in order to solidify that the US, and not Germany, would inherit Britain's world leadership and financial bubble. The Great Recession from 2008 was blamed on a combination of bankers, home buyers, and certain public-sector officials.
Indeed, that's how the modern system works. Dirty work is 'outsourced' to parties who would take the blame when worst comes to worst (and in most cases it won't come close to that.) The system as a whole is not known by the majority, never mind blamed.
If this is the cost, the benefit of a controlled financial reset, blamed on a virus, would seem to be worth it to the leadership of the deep state.