I follow a blog by a British 'dissident' doctor, and his view rapidly turned towards not so much conspiracy, as the view that what is playing out now is the ultimate consequence of bad science. Every so often the discussion veers towards other scientific scandals - CAGW, Halton Arp, etc because these exhibit the same problem - arogant careless science that ends up building on mistakes. For example, conventionally the medical term 'case' applies to someone who is suffering symptoms of a disease. Just about everyone on that forum is convinced that the supposed resurgence of COVID-19 is simply a consequence of testing more and more people with a test that probably shows false positives.
The other thing that he stresses is that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that people should take a Vitamin D tablet to reduce their risk of getting the disease. All the influenza diseases strike cyclically - strongly peaking in winter time, which is when people run short of Vitamin D because of the lack of sun in Northern latitudes.
There also seems to be general agreement that Big Pharma hates vitamins - why solve some problems with vitamins, which are extremely cheap, rather than take a wonderfully expensive concoction from their labs. Treatments are tested by expensive randomly controlled trials, and almost all of these are run by Big Pharma, and they simply do not test cheap cures like vitamins!
I found myself on that blog after I had a nasty reaction to statins. Those drugs hurt a lot of people. Dr Kendrick's view - backed up by a lot of research - is not only that statins are essentially useless, but that there is no evidence that high blood cholesterol (presumably within limits) is in any way bad for you!
http://www.doctoringdata.co.uk/
Corruption is simply everywhere by now.
David