Collected Item: “Conspiracy Theory Involving Captain America and Spaghetti”
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Conspiracy Theory Involving Captain America and Spaghetti
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Since COVID-19 was an unprecedented event, people tried hard to understand its cause. Many conspiracy theories cropped up. This one claimed that the virus was predicted by the movie Captain America. Here he is shown in Times Square, New York, with a bottle of Corona beer in lights and what could be seen as an atom of the virus. These two elements "prove" that the virus was released into the population. Of course, the virus has nothing whatsoever to do with the beer--it was named corona due to the halo surrounding each virion.
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#coronabeer, #beer, #conspiracytheory, #TimesSquare, #CaptainAmerica, #spaghetti, #WilliamMullally
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-covid19-captain-america-conspiracy-theory-has-a-satisfying-and-hilarious-explanation/
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2020-06-15