5G, bioweapons, Bill Gates: Why are COVID-19 conspiracy theories gaining traction?

At the end of March, in the city of Birmingham, England, a 70-foot cellular tower belonging to the mobile network operator EE Limited was deliberately set on fire by unidentified arsonists. Over the following weeks, cell towers in Belfast, Liverpool and the village of Melling were set ablaze, too, seriously jeopardizing the infrastructure of a network that provides phone service to millions — including emergency services, which are indispensable during a health crisis.

There is, of course, no merit to the argument that 5G is killing us, and certainly has nothing to do with a viral contagion of the kind the world is facing. Meanwhile, experts, politicians and spokesmen for the relevant industries have been obliged to dismiss these claims, often with justified impatience. Steve Powis, of the NHS, called them “absolute and utter rubbish.” Cabinet secretary Michael Gove called them “dangerous nonsense.

Nor is this phenomenon confined to Great Britain. A recent poll conducted by Carleton University in Ottawa found that 11 per cent of Canadians believe COVID is a 5G cover-up, and more than a quarter believe the claim that COVID was concocted as a weapon by the Chinese. A separate poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that 15 per cent of Canadians believe Bill Gates is responsible, while another 15 per cent believe COVID doesn’t actually exist.

You see a lot of this rhetoric in another realm of conspiratorial lunacy: the “flat earth” movement, whose proponents sincerely believe that our planet isn’t round but is actually a flat disc fixed in space. Flat-earthers, like COVID truthers, tend to advocate a sort of eye-opening intuition: there’s a lot of talk of “doing your own research” and looking into this or that subject on your own, meaning contrary to the advice of experts.

Because Gates, Bezos, Zuck and the gang have showed their true colours ... world dominance.

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Because the conspiracy theorists have a pretty good track record. Only 2 years ago everybody thought TarSandsCampaign and Agenda 2030 were just theories. The world knows the left has become unhinged and deranged.

Governments have played fast and loose with the truth too many times. Now, everytime “authority” tells the public the time, everyone checks their watch. Thesis: the political party system has damaged gov’t credibility to the point that alternate narratives become more plausible.

The fact u have to write about it means too many people are questioning these mattersthan is safe for the ruling class. Gotta wonder why.

Blame the msm for always being so dishonest, people don't know what to believe.

Anything MSM doesn't report is considered conspiracy..but who owns MSM?

Lots of conservative on that bandwagon too... Brutal. Better put that 4G phone down now...

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