>>12675121That's because the collapse happened before the viral outbreak which was later used as a distraction when everyone assumed it was the only thing causing economic problems.
For the first time since the 2008 recession the Federal Reserve (central banking system for the world's reserve currency) began injecting massive sums of rescue money (trillions) into the failing repo markets starting in September of 2019, several months before COVID-19 hysteria began.
e.g. Pic related is an article from January 2020 and you'll notice A) the virus wasn't yet a topic of interest in the US and B) it's talking about how convenient it would be for the Fed to have distractions at that time to avoid having the general public find out what was happening.