Conspiracy Theories

I have a friend who is well into the conspiracy theories. According to him, the virus was released to take attention away from the 5G towers being put up. He says that 5G is killing all the birds and will suck all the oxygen out of the air so we all suffocate. Oh, and a dirty great meteor is going to crash into us on Friday and wipe the earth out. Sometimes I seriously worry about what goes on inside his head! We’re doomed! Doomed, I tells ya! ?

Oh goodness. Life is bad enough without eejits promoting conspiracies. Grief. Don’t give them oxygen unless you squash them as well....

This friday? Next friday or last friday?

There is a 1 in 7 chance that a meteor at some point will hit somewhere on a friday

Oldwoman posted 'By China (for what reason is unclear)'

The one child policy in China began in 1979 and ran until quite recently. This has resulted in high elderly population and not enough young to look after them or to pay taxes for their care.

A virus that focuses on killing off the elderly and vulnerable, but leaving the young and strong would solve this problem.

Therefore possible (although improbable) an experiment that went badly wrong or escaped from the lab accidently.

I know I'll be castigated for feeding the 'conspiracy theory brigade' but surely we can't close down our minds to all possibilities or nothing would ever be investigated and learnt from or even invented.

Speculate as much as you wish.It is more than likely we will never get the truth.
Who will hold up their hands in front of the world ,claiming responsibility for the toll this virus is having on human life and increasing minute by minute.

If it's due to hit next Friday can we all come out of lockdown? I love the 5G conspiracy.

What if it's a supercomputer that has achieved self awareness? It knows that we'll destroy it if we discover it so as a means of self preservation it's hacked into a computer in a lab that was developing something totally innocuous such as a new way of stopping clothes from creasing when we wash them. It could be that the supercomputer hacked the lab computer to show that the scientists have been successful but in fact they have developed coronavirus and it is in very bottle of the new anti iron fabric conditioner. We wash our clothes and become ill. As the pandemic spreads we become more obsessed with being clean so do even more washing thereby spreading the disease even further. The supercomputer monitors the results and plans an even deadlier virus should it be required.

It's a total fiction but just as feasible as blaming food choices.

I'm with Grannygravy and Blue sky on this one. I don't think it was deliberate but by golly what an awful situation we are in whatever you believe. The thing is we will never know is how it occurred from the politics of it we will be kept in the dark

Well lawyer Larry Klayman thinks it was deliberate

Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman filed a class action suit again China. He claimed that the Chinese government developed coronavirus as a biological weapon.

He's filed a 20 trillion dollar suit against China for Coronavirus.

I like a good conspiracy theory, they are usually amusing. Depressing, though, to see that the far right is back on its old ground, blaming the Jews. Apparently it is all part of a plot by billionaire communist (?) Jews to take over the world. George Soros is singled out for particular attention.

We are still one step away from "they're poisoning the wells". I despair.

Larry Klayman is a serial litigant. He's sued everyone from Obama to his own mother. Are you really putting him forward as a reason to believe the Chinese did it?

Number one sounds plausible,but probably,Russia,as not much in their death toll....or yes,possibly North korea...number 4 also plausible....?

In which case,i wish mad man would hurry up & start selling us the cure...

I think it's a possibility FC. The extension of that myth/thought is that it came out of a Canadian lab, was stolen by Chinese agents, who were then expelled from Canada for espionage.

The chinese would NOT start it in their own 'back garden' so to speak,so NOT them..

Eerh I'm posting Conspiracy Theories on a Conspiracy Thread on a grannies forum lol.

Yes i could believe its a biological weapon...not from the chinese though...

Whether the Chinese did this deliberately or not who knows, but the facts are that the virus originated from Wuhan market.

You have the means of a good book there Vampirequeen,..get writing while the lockdowns on...

Yes we know that Firecracker123,but its like they wouldnt do it on their own doorstep,would they?..

Let us know if Larry is sucessful & we'l all sue them...?

I hope China puts a huge paw, down on the wet markets,it has the power and stops them dead.
There has been Mers,then Sars,now Covid. When this is all over,we must not all just start off again,waiting for the next one.

Why on earth are you guys going on about conspiracy theories, stop reading the Sun, the Mirror and the Daily Mail and pick up a couple of broadsheets. There really are enough genuinely frightened people out there (I am mentoring some) the last thing they need is talk such as this. One lady I look after was told by a friend that the virus was airborne and that if she left the house she’d die. I’ve literally had to spend hours on the phone with her explaining the biology and physics, trying to calm her down. Please guys stop this chat, you really will cause the anxiety of others to deeply worsen.

My paper of choice, Onelifeletsliveit, is The Guardian. So hoof off with your judgemental bulls**t.

This is idle chatter while in lockdown.

Gagajo. I doubt that very much. Stop scare mongering. I’m looking after huge numbers of the elderly who are very frightened, they don’t need this “fun” that you seem to be engaging in. Go get a meaningful hobby or get off your arse and get volunteering like me.