Conspiracy Theories

I am enjoying this thread as it is totally tongue-in-cheek and any levity at this moment in time is appreciated by me ?

Gosh, you are busy Onelife, looking after a huge number of elderly people.

Have you got a " thing" about bottoms? You keep telling us to get off them.

I heard that the US and China fell out over the trade deal. China released the virus, to teach Trump a lesson. China then buys up vast amount of stocks and shares at bargain prices so becoming the leading world power.

Or

It's part of a global take over that's to do with 5g, there's no virus just radiation poisoning. There's going to be a single world currency, we are going to be chipped via the testing program.

You pays your money and takes your choice

quizequeen … Bats are mammals and live in large social groups, like us. They carry this virus but are immune.

Most Bat colonies live in caves, which are inaccessible for the most part to human activity, hence no cross infection.

The similarities between us and Bats (yes!) means with a few mutations the virus has got a foot hold.

According to lots of scientific research out there, its accepted that Bats are the source.

The link to Pangolins has been put forward but not yet completely endorsed.

Whether accidental infection of differing species in Wuh Han markets.

Or accidental/purposeful infection in laboratory,
then accidental/purposeful escape/release of virus, is where the conspiracy theories begin.

Take your pick.

It begins and ends in China, but our lack of interest in preventative research into virus contagion in general, is why we are playing catch up.

Basically we have been complacent since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

BTW ...anyone heard the conspiracy theory that the Spanish flu (1918 and nothing to do with Spain) was started in America by an infected eastern European man sent to bring the USA to its knees?

Oh please conspiracy theorists get a grip. Love the spoof ones but those of you spouting your crackpot conspiracies, please don't.

It was created and released by overpopulated countries to help reduce the numbers of bed blockers, create spaces in care homes and obviously reduce the state pension claimants.

Peardrop50 name one good invention that came out of giving time to a conspiracy theory! Good on you *vampirequeen”. It would be harmless idle chatter if it wasn’t dangerous rubbish.

Greymar. Can’t say it’s not exhausting which is why I keep trying to tell people to get up off there arses and do something constructive too. I find the selfishness on here absolutely staggering so I think I’m going to walk away. There are so many on here that could help others, but what do they do, get online and go scaremongering. Unbelievable.

What a load of crap some people talk.

How do you interpret silence as selfishness?

I could tell you what I did yesterday but I'm not bragging about it.

Re claiming that it can't be the Chinese, who wouldn't start it off in their back garden - NOBODY would start off a lethal virus in their own back garden - the whole point about a global virus is that it is - er - global . They'd have to be seriously dim to think that a good idea.

It must have been the Martians - they are far enough away to avoid getting annihilated themselves. I can't imagine a motive, though. They wouldn't want our planet, they'd want something with different conditions. Could they be planning to build a motorway through it, but don't want the cost of compensating us for the compulsory purchase?

I wouldn't like to speculate too much. However, I'm sure we will end up with, amongst other restrictions and erosion of our civil liberties, a low level of martial law (with the potential of heightening whenever "they" feel the need to), even more surveillance than we have now, and a cashless society.

Onelifeletsliveit, I am part of a vulnerable group PLUS am a teacher so am working from home. Not to mention that two people in my household have had symptoms which could well be the virus, so there is no way anyone out of my house could safely be around the vulnerable elderly.

The reason the thread is called conspiracy theories is because most of us don't actually believe them.

Finally, don't tell me what to do. Get out and get busy if you're so important. The arrogance!

Must say that reading through this thread gave me some of the biggest laughs for ages. I am dumbfounded that anyone could take any of these fantastical stories and thing of them in any other way Alarmed by the racism some of them seem to be spitting out.

Scientists predicted that the next pandemic would begin in the wet markets of China, so no surprises there.

Incidentally, did you know that armadillos are the only animals which incubate leprosy? No, me neither, until my DD told me when she was studying armadillo brains. They eat armadillos in Central America. Just thought I would throw that in.

To whom are you speaking jennymolly? The spoof ones are quite entertaining, which is a good thing isn't it?
The others can be ignored if you don't like them surely?

True Petalpop!!

4allweknow .. tongue in cheek??

Marjgran, I didn't infer that conspiracy theories have anything to do with inventions. I said closed minds could prevent invention.

Mother Nature's plan for dealing with the world's overpopulation !!!

I've enjoyed reading this thread, but this article is a bit sobering. This is what happens when people believe in a conspiracy theory, particularly if it's endorsed by a minor celeb:

www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/03/broadband-engineers-threatened-due-to-5g-coronavirus-conspiracies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Am not one to go along with conspiracy theories but...just saying...did anyone watch the film Contagion? Which was filmed like ten years ago? Was on t.v. recently. Uncanny how it mirrored today's events! Even down to it starting in China from bats! Premonition? or what? It cleverly showed how it spread throughout the world. It was scary but the ending did give hope so worth a watch if you feel like some 'light' entertainment ha ha

"Fred did it". That is as plausible as all the theories.

Another conspiracy vocalised by my 4 year old GS, when being asked if he wanted to wash his hands, he refused, saying ‘it could be a trap’. Bet you didn’t know washing your hands could be a trap to catch you. Wonder who is holding the traps.

I like your GS thinking. He's right. There could be a giant spider lurking inside the tap just waiting for some unexpecting 4 year olds hands to come into view then..BAM!!!...it drops down and runs up his arm inside his shirt.

I know that big spiders lie in wait for children. When I was little our school had outside toilets and huge spiders would hide behind the cistern (which was high on the wall) and wait until some innocent child got settled to the point where he/she couldn't move then they would drop onto the child. An experienced spider could drop straight down the neck of a child and get inside the clothing.

There is no need to be quite so rude jennymolly & petalpop. I thought we were free on GN to have an opinion but apparently not.

I started this thread to point out how ridiculous these conspiracy theories are - most posters have taken the thread as it was intended - with humour.