I believe this would be happening even if they had a crystal ball to see the future of them not even ending up on the proxy or not winning a single spot. There has been an all out attack of CYDY as soon as HIV BLA was a real possibility last year and especially once we all started hearing the amazing anecdotal stories of Critical Covid patents taken off ventilators and ECMO. They have to be somehow in the game of keeping SP low use your own conspiracy theories there are plenty out there.