Conspiracy theories help people believe they can make sense of the pandemic disaster that is the ongoing. We are in the 4th year of the pandemic and conspiracy theories still abound. On February 26, 2023, The United States Energy Department released a report that acknowledged that there was low confidence that the virus originated in the Wuhan Virology lab. There is still not enough evidence to state if the virus had a lab origin or spread from an animal to humans. Regardless this has now been accepted as gospel truth by conspiracy theorists that the virus was a biological weapon developed in a lab. The same people who believe it is a biological weapon however refuse to wear a mask of filtrate indoor air. This report which has not been made public, had caused COVID minimizes to crawl out of the floor boards.
Misinformation spreads much faster than the virus. Chinese social media has come up with the theory that the United States developed to Corona virus and then released it in Wuhan to frame China. A pro-China you tuber wrote, wrote on Twitter. “I can now announce, with ‘low confidence,’ that the COVID pandemic began as a leak from Hunter Biden’s laptop.” Such conspiracy theories would be funny if so many ignorant people didn’t take them a face value.
Conspiracy theories are related in that people believe there is one malicious master conspiracy. What makes conspiracy theories most successful it the idea malicious purposes and secretive actions. Facts , corroborating evidence or scientific research are not important. The conspiracy theory that 5G technology could harm people existed before the pandemic. But once influencers said that the 5G towers spread the virus the insane theory went viral like wildfire.
Governments like the United States, the U.K. and Sweden let the coronavirus rip through their populations with the hope that they would reach herd immunity—the point at which enough people are immune to the virus that it can no longer spread. Herd immunity however is never going to happen with COVID-19 since the virus mutates so quickly finding ways to break through our immune response. The horrible side effect is that COVID instead destroys our immunity making everyone who is infected more vulnerable to multiple COVID infections and other pathogens as well.
In February 2023, the CDC quietly added a paragraph to their website about the destructive side effects of multiple infections with COVID… “‘Emerging evidence suggests that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),the virus that causes COVID-19 can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially years after infection. Documented serious post-COVID-19 conditions include cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, renal, endocrine, hematological, and gastrointestinal complications, as well as death.”
Government policy related to public health seems to be to deny, minimize, and then let it out on the sly, after the fact. It took the CDC years to acknowledge that COVID is an airborne virus that can stay suspended in the air for much further than 6 feet. Each public health talking head that I have been following has been infected by COVID because they did not follow the simple public health protocols that they promoted.