Some people do an about-face (is that how you spell that shit? lmao) but it just seems like the predominant tact is to move the goalpost to something else, until it gets so knee-deep in batshit that they can't possibly turn back if they wanted to.

I'm sure there's someone out there right now, penning a dead serious blog/youtube/fb post saying that this was an Illuminati sacrifice, not actually COVID, in order to ensure a Trump victory or some shit.