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What's a low stakes conspiracy theory you believe? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

From what I understand the reason China spotted it was that people whose job was to look for sus patterns in hospital admissions noticed a weird cluster of pnuemonia cases. I guess Pnuemonia isn't supposed to happen in clusters like that? Either way, someone was like "We should take a look at this", phoned it up the hierarchy, and the decision makers sent people in a day or two later to start investigating. A week or two later they published the genome. If other regions weren't monitoring for unusual disease clusters, or missed signs, it's plausible that it was in other places already.