There was less time between a few people making a theory 3 months ago to the media leftists and congress freaking out for no actual threat; than last year when the novel coronavirus went from nonspreadable by humans in January, to just a cold that anyone who is nervous is just racist towards Chinese people in early February, to not much worse than the flu and just wash your hands in late February, to 2 million dead in a year if we don't close businesses down for 2-3 weeks in March, to cover your face and never live life until the disease eradicated in April.
BTW if social pressure is needed to "Trust science" and "trust the media", and it is damaged just by asking questions; it's not reality, it's a cult!
The logic of your heading does not seem to match the illogical ass-backwards media narratives you accurately remember in your post. :-P
Was Donald Trump the mysterious person inaugurated in a secret ceremony seen by an Australian psychic?
Is Joe Biden just an actor in the Q-movie we all are watching.
As my high-school acquaintance Jeffrey would always say ... "God knows. But he ain't say'in."