It's a kakistocracy. The conspiracy is the spread of incompetency to paper over the mental illness of a malignant narcissist. It is better that the VPOTUS is taking charge of this, he's one of the few senior officials who isn't temporary, acting, unconfirmed, or insane. But conveniently, if everything goes to hell, the narcissist has someone to shift the blame to. And the only reason why someone accused you of bragging is classic "whataboutism" to deflect from your question, you can just ignore that nonsense. By the way, at least SK successfully impeached and removed its corrupt president from office. It's called taking responsibility and keeping power with the people.

In the U.S. we're papering over incompetency, corruption, and mental illness as much as possible. What will be the CDC version of Clownstick's NOAA Sharpie incident? I'm supremely confident there will be an equivalent of ordering scientists to lie to the American public, because that's what he does. It isn't a conspiracy, it's incompetency. And it is contagious. Defending incompetency is itself incompetent.

Edit: Oh look it's already happening. U.S. health officials can't make their own statements on the progression of Coronavirus, they have to clear their statements with Pence first. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronaviru...