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Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by OutOfHere on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:45PM (#40686842)
[CONSPIRACY] People don't know the untold history of Covid-19. It emerged soon after the climate threat was escalated in the news in 2019. The timing was not a coincidence. The idea is that the virus "was leaked" on purpose when it became clear that there was no other solution to climate change, and that climate stability depended on human degrowth. By taking people out of the workforce, both Covid and especially Long Covid are forces of economic degrowth. The plan is in motion, but mRNA vaccines thankfully blunted the effect for anyone who is not a vaccine hater. As such, Covid does filter its targets. It true, it could be followed through by a nastier virus, not by the same individual or facility, but by any lab scientist who understands the full picture.
Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by clipsy on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:20PM (#40686996)
Points for originality, at least. So many conspiracy theorists nowadays are just boring and predictable.
Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by richrichie on Saturday June 15, 2024 @12:46AM (#40687581)
I think long COVID is pretty interesting? It is also unpredictable with a new symptom being added every day (200 symptoms and still going).
Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by OutOfHere on Sunday June 16, 2024 @11:48AM (#40697907)
The funny thing is that a belief in appropriate conspiracy theories holds much survival value. Prominent examples are:

(1) A belief in a supernatural religion is good for getting laid in the same group. (2) A belief in the coming of economic collapse causes one to hoard gold or bitcoin, both of which have appreciated in value relative to holding the dollar in a bank. (3) A belief in the coming of societal collapse, at least at the national level, causes one to become more prepared for potential emergencies. (4) A paranoid belief in the extent of governmental mass surveillance causes one to adopt privacy and cybersecurity technologies.

Wrt Covid and Long Covid, believing in the conspiracy results in taking preparatory at the individual level steps to prepare for the next such virus, if only to boost one's immune system in clever ways.