Yeah, Fauci and Gates are dicks, far from genius they're both known to deal in very suspect activity but are regarded as saints in the press. In a few years, everyone will forget his lies, and if you speak bad of Fauci, you'll be called a crackpot conspiracy theorist.

Highly likely that there are a great many frauds and con-artists made into heroes of the ages. Great claims are made, stories are told, then exaggerated, and repeated until the original story is completely bunk.

Man meets his friends at a bar, they're all poor and could only get water, the guy buys his friends a proper drink from all the doubloons he's been conning on the street. The man turned their water into wine! Booyah. Bullshit stories turn into legend.