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Goodheart

(5,264 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:34 PM Apr 2020

Have 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.

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Have you heard that China did this on purpose? (Original Post) Goodheart Apr 2020 OP
It's crazy Windy City Charlie Apr 2020 #1
They talk in circles... Goodheart Apr 2020 #2
We ARE China's economy. hurting us is suicide for them Takket Apr 2020 #3
+1 crickets Apr 2020 #5
I predict customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #7
And it should happen Calculating Apr 2020 #8
China told the Con to ignore this for two months? malaise Apr 2020 #4
not to mention NewJeffCT Apr 2020 #16
People really are gulluble malaise Apr 2020 #17
This is Agenda 21 conspiracy theory nonsense. octoberlib Apr 2020 #6
One tried but I showed them the WHO website where they updated the world on Jan 10 uponit7771 Apr 2020 #9
Bunk. It came from a lab in North Carolina.. Grins Apr 2020 #10
No, but I heard Trump neglected this on purpose Sneederbunk Apr 2020 #11
Oh I called this. underpants Apr 2020 #12
Yes, I have. Others are pushing that it was Putin to destroy us... SMC22307 Apr 2020 #13
In case you hear this from anyone semi-rational, here's the refutation to it being manufactured... thesquanderer Apr 2020 #14
They're never going to accept a refutation from some journal named "Science Daily" Goodheart Apr 2020 #15
They're burning down 5G towers in the UK because Corona blogslut Apr 2020 #18
No mention of George Soros? Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #19

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)
1. It's crazy
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:37 PM
Apr 2020

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.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
7. I predict
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:56 PM
Apr 2020

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

(2,954 posts)
8. And it should happen
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:59 PM
Apr 2020

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.

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
16. not to mention
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 11:12 AM
Apr 2020

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

(267,827 posts)
17. People really are gulluble
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 11:14 AM
Apr 2020

Truth be told he's a fucking idiot - an incompetent, arrogant know it all fool

Grins

(7,134 posts)
10. Bunk. It came from a lab in North Carolina..
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 06:49 PM
Apr 2020

Then taken to China and released to create a new, new world order

I read it on Facebook.

(Yes. Sarcasm.)

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
13. Yes, I have. Others are pushing that it was Putin to destroy us...
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 07:30 PM
Apr 2020

or Steve Bannon to destroy us. I just tune it all out.

blogslut

(37,955 posts)
18. They're burning down 5G towers in the UK because Corona
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 11:17 AM
Apr 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/04/827343675/u-k-cellphone-towers-ablaze-as-conspiracy-theories-link-5g-networks-to-covid-19

Conspiracy theories tying 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic are troubling telecom authorities in the United Kingdom and are being cited as possible motivation for multiple cellphone tower fires this week.

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

(14,847 posts)
19. No mention of George Soros?
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 11:24 AM
Apr 2020

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.

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