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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you heard that China did this on purpose?
Well, that's what I've heard from three trumplodytes now.
"Why would they do that?", I asked.
Next door neighbor: "To make trump look bad because he was hurting their economy."
Brother: "Because their economy was in the crapper, so that's where they wanted ours to be, too."
Other brother: "They made it in a laboratory to harm us, they didn't mean to infect their own citizens but they don't care about them, anyway."
Not surprisingly, all three answers made perfect sense to me... in the sense that I was talking to three stupid people.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)It's crazy the number of conspiracy theories I've heard over the last several weeks. The last couple of days I've been hearing some of them saying the number of cases and deaths from it are hoaxes, that they're falsified numbers.
Goodheart
(5,334 posts)The numbers are not real, but China did this to us on purpose.
Takket
(21,578 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)a "screw China" movement to take place, no matter how the election turns out. All it would take is about a ten percent permanent loss in imports from China to make things worse for them.
I'm a bit surprised it hasn't started already.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Whether this was released from their bioweapon lab by accident or just arose because they wouldn't shut down the wet markets, nobody can deny that they handled it rather negligently. They literally arrested the first doctor who was trying to warn us all, and made him back down from his statements. That doctor later died from the very virus he was trying to warn the world about.
malaise
(269,063 posts)OK then
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Did China tell him to dismantle the pandemic response infrastructure?
Did China tell him to fire the CDC liaison in Beijing?
Did China tell him to get rid of the PREDICT program that worked with countries in stopping virus epidemics and pandemics?
malaise
(269,063 posts)Truth be told he's a fucking idiot - an incompetent, arrogant know it all fool
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Grins
(7,218 posts)Then taken to China and released to create a new, new world order
I read it on Facebook.
(Yes. Sarcasm.)
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)underpants
(182,834 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)or Steve Bannon to destroy us. I just tune it all out.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)LOL
blogslut
(38,002 posts)Fires on at least three towers have been reported over the past few days. In at least two instances, accompanying videos and online posts are raising concerns that the attacks may be linked to conspiracy theories that cast 5G networks as the actual cause of COVID-19.
The first two fires in Belfast, North Ireland, and Birmingham, England occurred Thursday. A third occurred on a tower in England's Liverpool area on Friday.
The BBC reports that the government says there is no evidence of a link between the Birmingham and Liverpool fires. Though, the Guardian is reporting that Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson had received threats over the "bizarre" theory...
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)The omnipresent boogey man of right-wing nutcases?
By the way, speaking of Soros, I remember hearing a bunch of coworkers criticize Bill Gates in 2000. It seemed so weird that he was suddenly a source of scorn to them when they never brought him up previously.
I figured they were parroting stuff they heard from right-wing sources, as those particular people had done in the past.
I later learned that Gates had recently founded a philanthropic organization to improve healthcare and reduce poverty.