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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:34 PM

Goodheart (3,287 posts)

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

Response to Goodheart (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:37 PM

Windy City Charlie (1,118 posts)

1. It's crazy

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.

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:38 PM

Goodheart (3,287 posts)

2. They talk in circles...

The numbers are not real, but China did this to us on purpose.

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:42 PM

Star Member Takket (13,972 posts)

3. We ARE China's economy. hurting us is suicide for them

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:43 PM

Star Member crickets (16,547 posts)

5. +1

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:56 PM

customerserviceguy (25,167 posts)

7. I predict

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.

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:59 PM

Calculating (1,867 posts)

8. And it should happen

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.

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:43 PM

malaise (225,481 posts)

4. China told the Con to ignore this for two months?

OK then

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Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:12 AM

NewJeffCT (56,492 posts)

16. not to mention

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?

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Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:14 AM

malaise (225,481 posts)

17. People really are gulluble

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

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:44 PM

Star Member octoberlib (13,679 posts)

6. This is Agenda 21 conspiracy theory nonsense.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeydurso/coronavirus-agenda-21-5g
This is the DU member formerly known as octoberlib.

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:01 PM

Star Member uponit7771 (74,712 posts)

9. One tried but I showed them the WHO website where they updated the world on Jan 10

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:49 PM

Grins (3,590 posts)

10. Bunk. It came from a lab in North Carolina..

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

I read it on Facebook.

(Yes. Sarcasm.)

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 06:15 PM

Sneederbunk (8,297 posts)

11. No, but I heard Trump neglected this on purpose

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 06:30 PM

Star Member SMC22307 (7,377 posts)

13. Yes, I have. Others are pushing that it was Putin to destroy us...

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

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 07:37 PM

thesquanderer (10,876 posts)

14. In case you hear this from anyone semi-rational, here's the refutation to it being manufactured...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm

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Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:08 AM

Goodheart (3,287 posts)

15. They're never going to accept a refutation from some journal named "Science Daily"

LOL

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Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:17 AM

Star Member blogslut (34,927 posts)

18. They're burning down 5G towers in the UK because Corona

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...

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Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:24 AM

Buckeye_Democrat (10,680 posts)

19. No mention of George Soros?

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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