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Collected Item: “Coronovirus Conspiracies”

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Coronovirus Conspiracies

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News article

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There are many conspiracy theories circulating about COVID-19. Some of them are downright ridiculous, some are scary if you start to think about them seriously.
This article tries to make sense out of why these explanations are being propagated.
There are mainly two branches: One that doubts the virus's severity and the other main one that it was released as a biological weapon.

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hoax, conspiracytheory, molepeople, virus, bioweapon, Wuhan, isolation, anxiety, powerlessness, urbanlegend, deepstate

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/what-can-coronavirus-tell-us-aboutconspiracytheories/ 610894/?fbclid=IwAR1je_YOpjL8XAAwTbIQJYKo_WnhWPyINlAomBFi7CfMGD7 mMtVbH5AEmrg

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The Atlantic Monthly

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2020
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