you know what's the problem with all these current-virus conspiracy theories?
they don't go far enough, and they're not inventive. they're just old tricks.

"oh the virus was created in china as a weapon"
pfft, get a new one. the soviets were spreading conspiracies saying the CIA invented AIDS to wipe out the inner city populations back in the early 80s.

all the stuff about calling it the "chinese flu" and such?
that goes back as far as the 1918 influenza pandemic.
It got called "the Spanish flu" because during WW1 all the countries were heavily censoring their media for morale reasons.
Spanish was neutral, and reported on it.

"it's just a fake disease to cover up mumble mumble"
Oh, like when the doctors in Rozwadów, Poland faked a Typhus epidemic to rescue people from the Nazi work camp?
THAT'S OLD NEWS

You want an actual conspiracy theory? a new one?

The virus came from ʻOumuamua.

A mysterious elongated interstellar object up to a kilometer long comes in at high speed, deaccelerates while slingshotting around the sun, and then flies back out into interstellar space?
That's all the hallmarks of a long range galactic probe.

And clearly the creators of it were worried that the passing of their probe would be detected by intelligent life on the planets it passed, so they included a simple method to destroy any civilizations they detect. A virus. Probably a whole bunch of viruses.

a virus is the perfect payload. It's tiny so you won't run out of "ammo", it's undetectable, and it hijacks the self-replication machinery of organic cells it discovers on those planets.
You let their bodies build their own destroyer.

now THAT'S a conspiracy theory.
Not "oh maybe the government wants us to wear masks to make us all subservient and to enforce their dominance"

LOOK MAN, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE WEIRD BDSM FANTASIES, YOU CAN DO THAT.

JUST PLEASE DO THEM ON THE BEDROOM AND CHAT ROOMS WHERE THEY BELONG, NOT ON THE NEWS

mind you if you want to really consider my stupid ʻOumuamua theory?

it's also old news. Camille Flammarion figured out there was cyanogen gas in the tail of Halley's comet, which was due to return later that year, with the earth passing through the tail.

clearly this celestial object doing a sun-dive was going to KILL US ALL WITH DEADLY POISON and we should all panic.

So you better buy your Anti-Comet Pills, kids.

and I mean, he wasn't wrong, completely?
There was Cyanogen in the comet's tail, and it is very deadly.

It's just that the comet tail is exceptionally diffuse so it made no difference to the earth.

anyway, the important point to take away from this is to come up with some NEW CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
Figure out an actually unusual nigh-impossible reason why the virus isn't what it appears to be.

I was gonna joke that maybe we're haunted.
maybe the virus is a plague of tiny ghosts hiding in our lungs

and maybe those ghosts are ALIEN GHOSTS that came in on ʻOumuamua?

but then I remembered that's just a combination of the cosmology of Scientology and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.