Same thing they originally did with Antifa "doesn't exist" bs denial. No denying it now though, took a couple of years for that zebra to be separated from the heard for good. Another example, Fauci claim of "Not Gain of Function" the comeback for that was to describe what they were doing, what is Gain of Function. Fauci was trying to use the same tactic of play on tags/wording to get away with it. That is as well why they keep changing the actual definitions of long standing and accepted meaning of words across the board.

Same thing they originally did with Antifa "doesn't exist" bs denial. No denying it now though, took a couple of years for that zebra to be separated from the heard for good.