The plan's success hinged on Hillbag being president. She lost.
So they rolled with it anyway - probably slightly earlier than they originally planned, as this would be more effective as a second-term pandemic with 5G fully in place.
Information warfare. No military ever has openly admitted to being cobbled and unable to fight, except as a ploy to draw the enemy in.
As an aside, carrier groups are useful for power projection, against crappy little countries, but no use against hypersonic missiles. If they Russians or the Chinese wanted to sink a carrier group they could. The repercussions from such an action however, would be severe.
This is a headline that says we're weakened in an area that doesn't matter.
This anon also thinks that the US military will use HCQ regardless of what Fauci thinks.