It will stop covid because it will stop the testing, which is all the 'pandemic' is really anyway. All of the people that are getting it first and all of the nervous nancys lining up to get it are the same people that keep getting tested. The testing goes down and this thing is over.
The patch package was signed so it had to have been done internally. I think it is parallel construction for plausible deniability of 'leaking' a lot of incriminating information that NSA and others already know. If we get a huge dump of stuff soon, we will know this was the case.
Imagine a town that has on its entry banner along with all of the silly awards and Rotarian badges a big red sign that says, warning this area is not patrolled by police.