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Question
What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?
Position3 of 6

COVID-19 is a man made biological weapon

This position catalogues the conspiracy theory that Covid-19 is a man-made biological weapon. It gathers rival claims blaming the UK, the US and Israel, or China for engineering the virus to attack rivals. Unsupported by evidence, it is documented here as believers tell it.

Supporting arguments · 3

  1. The US and Israel created coronavirus to attack foreign nations
    These governments developed the virus together to leverage their positions against both China and the Middle East.
  2. China created COVID-19 to attack foreign nations
    The virus was deliberately created in a secret laboratory close to Wuhan. Scientists intended to use the illness to wipe out the US in the battle for global hegemony.
  3. Coronavirus is part of the UK's ongoing biological warfare campaign
    The UK developed the virus in the same secret laboratory in which they developed the radioactive drugs that infected the Skripals, and killed Litvinenko.