With every passing day since the start of the sheltering at home measures in Germany and the situation not becoming as dire as in Italy or Spain there are increasing numbers of trolls noticeable in social media which are calling Covid-19 a hoax or a ploy by some secret organisation to cover up something bigger. It feels like if it goes on for much longer and the economic impact increases this could also lead to increased levels of aggression and division in society.
I've been hearing some of these too. Isn't it sad that this happens in a country that did take measures earlier/better testing efforts and now benefits from it, that it makes people loose motivation?
I have heard several conspiracy theories as well. In India and part of the middle east people seem to think that China made the virus in a lab and spread it over the world, starting with themselves to not make them look suspicious. Then here there's some rumors that it's a virus made in the USA or Canada and 'ordered' by some of the super rich families to make them more powerful(?!). Then there's the USA-story in a different form saying that they wanted to weaken the Chinese but then it backfired and spread over the rest of the world while China contained it quickly.
I'm still trying to decide which theory makes the least sense.
In the meantime, the whole 'virusses mutate naturally and jump from one species to another occasionally' is not believed by those people, even though the vast majority of new virusses have originated that way the past few decades. I guess them highly secret highly paid respiratory virus producing labs have been very active all this time making SARS, MERS, ebola, H1N1 and all those other strains too. Next they'll start questioning whether Spanish flu was lab made lol.
