China spread the seeds to conspiracy type folks. They were spreading all these videos of overflowing hospitals, people falling over dead, welded into their homes, etc. How does a country with such absolute control over their internet, people, and media have constant leaks like this? Simple, the CCP was doing it. CCP seeded these videos all over darker places of the internet (imageboards, small forums, etc) to let those people make something of it. And I hate them for it, it worked so fucking well.