I don't know that people are plucking the word out of its context like that. "The pandemic was engineered" is a substantially different claim than "the virus w

I don't know that people are plucking the word out of its context like that. "The pandemic was engineered" is a substantially different claim than "the virus was engineered", and I have seen vanishingly few claims of the former (in the mainstream; you can nutpick literally any claim in the Internet era).