THE BIGFOOT COVID CONSPIRACY by C. Phillip Lock

Trump himself admitted to journalist and author Bob Woodward in recorded interviews in early February and late March that he knew COVID-19 was more deadly than the flu and that he wanted to play down its severity. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Trump has lied about the disease’s severity, saying it is no more dangerous than seasonal influenza. Accidental lab releases of pathogens do sometimes occur, and although many scientists say this possibility is unlikely, it provides just enough legitimacy to support a narrative in which China intentionally engineered the virus to unleash it on the world. Why People Believe It: People want a scapegoat for the immense suffering and economic fallout caused by COVID-19, and China-a foreign country and a competitor of the U.S.-is an easy target. In response to calls for an independent, international investigation into how the virus originated, China has invited researchers from the World Health Organization to discuss the scope of such a mission. concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.” Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli-who studies bat coronaviruses and whose lab Trump and others have suggested was the source of COVID-19-compared the pathogen’s sequence with those of other coronaviruses her team had sampled from bat caves and found that it did not match any of them. intelligence agencies have categorically denied the possibility that the virus was engineered in a lab, stating that “the Intelligence Community .

○ 1 The virus was engineered in a laboratory in China.īecause the pathogen first emerged in Wuhan, China, President Donald Trump and others have claimed, without evidence, that it started in a lab there, and some conspiracy theorists believe it was engineered as a bioweapon.

THE BIGFOOT COVID CONSPIRACY by C. Phillip Lock