Conspiracy theories related to the coronavirus pandemic are being more and more unhinged, to the point it’s becoming difficult to determine if they are started in jest.
Absurd conspiracy theories are par for the course on social media, and in 2020, there is naturally one theme that most of these theories are centered around. Coronavirus.
Most theories are pretty standard and just rehashes or spin-offs from broader theories. Coronavirus has been manufactured by the government. Coronavirus is being used to restrict freedoms of ordinary people. “Big pharma” created coronavirus for financial profit. Coronavirus doesn’t exist and people who have it are crisis actors. Etcetera, etcetera.
They’re ridiculous, and despite what the angry man on the YouTube “documentary” says, they all lack evidence and logic.
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If it’s possible to describe a conspiracy as mainstream, the above would fit the bill. They’re the inevitable narratives that anyone familiar with the underground world of conspiracies would expect. The inevitable.
But every once in a while, a conspiracy so asinine, so creatively and uniquely absurd comes along, that even we question whether anyone out there could possibly believe it. A hopeful scepticism that is soon washed away after a search through social media.
So; the clapping is actually something that the government has setup to cover the construction work that is being done to setup the 5G network. Every week, they need to test it which lets off a really loud buzzing noise for exactly 1 minute, but the clapping covers it.
Thei nitial setup of 5G is actually causing corona virus. Please share this and stop clapping every Thursday.
The theory above purports that the weekly clap in the UK at exactly 8pm to celebrate the NHS and first responders is actually a cover to stop people hearing the construction work on the 5G network being setup across the country; the same 5G network, naturally, that many a conspiracist claims is responsible for the coronavirus pandemic in the first place.
Poe’s Law tells us that there is literally nothing so ridiculous on the Internet that someone, somewhere out there won’t believe it. While we don’t know if the person who penned the above was being serious or doing it in jest, we do know that some people out there have indeed taken it at face value.
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