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1. Speculation?
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 03:15 PM
Jan 2020

Have you seen anything substantial to back that up? It would be good to see more on that.

Once something critical gets going, there is often a barrage of speculation that is usually on the paranoid side, (paranoia can be useful) where people present speculations in a factual manner and sometimes, they have vivid imaginations and evangelize by spreading memes with no substantial basis to them.

In a crises of any kind, even if people mean well and believe what they spread, I just don't seem any reasonable or practical value in the memes, and they can even be distracting or harmful when it comes down to how to react to the problem. I used to find them interesting and novel to check out, but it is getting to be a deluge that reflects states of mind more than actuality, so emotive reactionary paranoia conspiracy theories, (just to prove they are RIGHT) might be a speculative, alternative view, but if they are just based on an well-articulated story, well, I prefer some good science fiction, myself.

Many of the conspiracy memes revolve around distrust in governments bordering on extreme paranoia, (which is fine) and, because they have come to a conclusion that is not researched well, (or difficult to prove) or lacks anything but anecdotal or coincidental evidence.

Oh, and there is a blue teacup floating in space between Earth and Mars.

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