This reminds me very much of the time when someone from NASA came out with an article about them working on a hypothetical warp drive, and then everyone literally believed that we are going to have a FTL warp drive, because people from NASA were working on it.
Same screeching and pearl clutching as always. Covid has wound down, trump is out of office, Twitter is still there (unfortunately). People have to have something to get hysterical about and this is it for now.