I remember last year, before the US elections, some of the conspiracy guys said "Just watch, after the election COVID will magically go away. This was all a ploy to make Trump look bad.". Others said "COVID will be around forever, the government will never give up emergency powers".

I could conclude that the latter camp was correct. Or that when you have competing versions of conspiracy theories, predicting different outcomes, one of them will always appear to be prescient after the fact. Then you can ignore the others that didn't pan out, and say that everything that's happened so far has been predicted by the conspiracy guys.