Editor:
I have always been intrigued by a good conspiracy theory, and now with the pandemic never in the course of human history has the environment been so ripe. Now I don’t believe that Elvis is working in a Walmart somewhere in Idaho, for god sake if he was still alive he would be 85.
I mean crazy dangerous ones. Like Hillary Clinton is running a satanic child porn operation out of a New York pizza parlour, causing a believer Edgar Welsh from North Carolina to show up armed with a AR-15 to save the children. Closer to home when Andrew Sheer was asked about PizzaGate at a rally in Alberta he didn’t even correct the man.
So on to COVID-19, these are a few, the US developed it as a secret bio-weapon and it escaped, or the Chinese developed in a lab and it escaped, or that the Chinese stole the virus from a lab in Winnipeg, or that the pharmaceutical industry is involved in its spread for financial reasons.
Regardless here are my two favourites. Best one wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Saros in the US intentional planed the pandemic (a theory according to a Pew research survey is believed by 30 per cent of Americans) so they would have a reason to vaccinate everyone and this would give them an opportunity to implant tracking devices in people so they could then be followed by the 5G network. The anti-vaxxers love this theory it plays right into their paranoia.
A close second best is that the 5G network itself causes Covid-19, that’s like on your weekly call to your Mom on a Sunday night you notice that she has a bad cold so you hang up so you don’t catch it, really. This conspiracy really got traction when people began to tag Trump in their tweets and bingo in the UK in April and May 4 communication towers were set on fire and another 60+ vandalized. Ironically they were all 2G towers not 5G.
It’s entertaining but dangerous and I really worry about our children and grandchildren, how will they manage to wade thought this sea of misinformation to find the truth?
Allen Clarke,
Mulmur.