Your suggestion is a pretty complex theory that involves a lot of people and it would require a knowledge of the virus that did not exist.
I think the “orange man bad” is a better explanation of the ridiculous hysteria hoping HCQ would fail so they could badmouth Trump. It successfully explains a lot of what we are seeing with many issues.
In hindsight, our “experts” were wrong about pretty much everything about this virus except that the elderly with underlying health issues were particularly vulnerable.
“...In hindsight, our “experts” were wrong ...”
In hindsight, our “experts” did what they were paid and told to do.
They should be locked up in GITMO as domestic enemy terrorists.