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Survey uncovers widespread belief in 'dangerous' Covid conspiracy theories
theguardian.com ^ | 10/26/2020 | Jon Henley and Niamh McIntyre

Posted on 10/26/2020 9:48:07 AM PDT by ransomnote

False claims that pandemic is a hoax or was started deliberately are attracting adherents around world

Significant numbers of people around the world believe Covid-19 was created deliberately, has killed far fewer people than reported, or is a hoax and does not actually exist, according to a global survey.

Along with belief in other conspiracy theories – such as that the world is run by a secret cabal – the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project, a survey of about 26,000 people in 25 countries designed in collaboration with the Guardian, found widespread and concerning scepticism about vaccine safety.

Among the most widely believed Covid conspiracies is that the death rate of the virus, which according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker has so far killed nearly 1.1 million people worldwide, has been “deliberately and greatly exaggerated”. Nearly 60% of respondents in Nigeria said this was definitely or probably true, along with more than 40% in Greece, South Africa, Poland and Mexico. About 38% of Americans, 36% of Hungarians, 30% of Italians and 28% of Germans felt the same.

There is evidence the coronavirus pandemic has prompted some people to say they trust experts more, but it has also triggered a wave of disinformation and fake news propagated by science deniers and conspiracy theorists that has spread virally on social networks.

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1 posted on 10/26/2020 9:48:07 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Dr. Tony’s lack of consistency and credibility has consequences.


2 posted on 10/26/2020 9:48:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: ransomnote

some believe it doesn’t exist....while the rest of the world is scared sh*$%less by a virus which doesn’t cause symptoms

who’s the fool here?


3 posted on 10/26/2020 9:49:56 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ransomnote
Listen to the experts!
4 posted on 10/26/2020 9:49:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote
The left has gone from "question Authority" to


5 posted on 10/26/2020 9:50:08 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: ransomnote

Heaven forbid we reference the data from the CDC.


6 posted on 10/26/2020 9:50:19 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: ransomnote

“Dangerous”


7 posted on 10/26/2020 9:50:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: ransomnote

Significant numbers of people around the world believe Covid-19 was created deliberately . . .

= = =

Well, not really ‘significant,’ because those peoples’ beliefs are having no effect on countering the Covid narrative.


8 posted on 10/26/2020 9:52:23 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: ransomnote

Who’s Covid?


9 posted on 10/26/2020 9:54:28 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: ransomnote

False claims that pandemic is a hoax ........................


There is the loaded statement...............

Have you stopped beating your wife.


10 posted on 10/26/2020 9:55:56 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ransomnote

>>Significant numbers of people around the world believe Covid-19 was created deliberately, has killed far fewer people than reported, or is a hoax and does not actually exist, according to a global survey.

Guardian believes rain is yellow


11 posted on 10/26/2020 9:57:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: ransomnote

If something is a Conspiracy, that does not mean it is not true.

It means it is a Conspiracy.

And that means ‘someone’ is conspiring.


12 posted on 10/26/2020 9:58:23 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: ransomnote

has been “deliberately and greatly exaggerated”. Nearly 60% of respondents in Nigeria ...............


They are not bombarded by the media as much.


13 posted on 10/26/2020 9:58:41 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/

Speaking at a White House press conference tonight to provide updates on the COVID-19 Coronavirus situation, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told reporters if you are healthy, there is no reason to eschew cruise vacations.


14 posted on 10/26/2020 9:59:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: MuttTheHoople

That graphic designer was Obama’s hired propagandist.


15 posted on 10/26/2020 9:59:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: ConservativeDude

When the MSM was screaming for universal testing on day one it should have set off everyone’s scam alert.


16 posted on 10/26/2020 10:00:01 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: ConservativeDude

“some believe it doesn’t exist....while the rest of the world is scared sh*$%less by a virus which doesn’t cause symptoms”

Over a million dead worldwide from a symptomless virus. Or is being dead a symptom? Which would mean that the virus is not symptomless and nobody died from a symptomless virus becomes vacuously true. Or not.

“who’s the fool here?”

I think that you have answered your own question.


17 posted on 10/26/2020 10:01:47 AM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant. Join the war effort. On the human side.)
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To: ransomnote

I think it’s real, it can affect some people badly, it’s fading in its virulence, it was manufactured or tweeked, was released, intentionally or not, and has been politicized far beyond any justification.


18 posted on 10/26/2020 10:05:04 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: cnsmom

“When the MSM was screaming for universal testing on day one it should have set off everyone’s scam alert.”

Much of the MSM was ignoring it until Trump shut down travel from China. Then he was a racist and you were all supposed to go party in Chinatown. Then 10,000 people in NYC died and moonbat mayors started locking everything down. When Trump called them moonbats, the press really started playing up the pandemic.


19 posted on 10/26/2020 10:06:06 AM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant. Join the war effort. On the human side.)
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To: ransomnote

Cove it is mostly a hoax

It’s just the flu bro


20 posted on 10/26/2020 10:07:54 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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