We’ve got a bunch of new people now so let’s bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?

I’ll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)

    • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      49·
      10 months ago

      I don’t want to stoke your conspiracy theory, but I remember getting violently ill in November of 2019, and everyone I worked with was sick at the same time. I was coughing up a lung, to the point where my throat was completely raw, and I could barely breathe walking to work, or even doing anything. there were multiple young people I worked with who were admitted with viral pneumonia, but specifically not the flu. I kept going back to an urgent care, and they gave me like 3 tests for the flu that all came back negative, but just shrugged their shoulders and gave me some meds. On my last visit, asking for another course of steroids/taper, the doctor said that I should probably be admitted, but I pushed back because I needed to work. Every door in that clinic had some dumb warning about vaping… Hardly anyone I worked with vaped. I don’t want to dox myself, but I worked at a hospital that was not too far from a famous US lab that was closed down a few months prior… cough … everybody tells me it is impossible that it could have been covid… it took me almost 3 months to start feeling like I had energy/my breath back… I still think it was covid.

        • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          18·
          10 months ago

          its been years now, I am fine, thanks. I am almost more certain that it was covid now than I was during the early part of the pandemic… but I sound like a nut when I talk about it with people. I have also met another healthcare worker who got sick in October of 19, after caring for a person who had come directly from Wuhan, but no… We are supposed to believe that the first covid case in the US was in March of 2020. I think it was all over the place early on, and China was the only country that had the sophisticated equipment, and the desire, to ID it. When people get a virus in the US, they never look for something novel. It would be expensive and it would also put the hospital out of business, like what happened to the Texas hospital that had a case of Ebola. The people who run hospitals are very often slimy corporate types who would literally trade lives for a bit of extra profit

      • ratboy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        10 months ago

        I remember right around that time a ton of people got sick at my work, too. I believe I did and it was the most sick I’d been in years and years. Probably a coincidence but since then I’d always wondered if it was covid and no one knew about it yet.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        The only way to settle this definitively is to get a multi-national team to scour call logs made to candle-companies by irate customers who can’t smell their candles. This should give us a definitively geo-temporal map of the origins and distribution of Covid over time.