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Scott Alexander shares conspiracy theory that COVID didn't happen (www.astralcodexten.com)
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In his original post he said:

4: Related, breaking news: A popular Substack claims that COVID didn’t happen at all, and that both “lab leak” and “natural origins” are part of the higher-level conspiracy to distract people from the fact that there was never a virus in the first place.

He later edited the post to add:

I wonder if I could even more Substack likes if I one-upped them with a theory that lockdowns never even happened, and it was just one of those Berenstein Bear or Mandela Effect things where everyone has a false memory.

So now it's ironic, and therefore not harmful to spread the conspiracy theory to his large audience.

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 24 points 5 months ago

The covid didn't happen at all substack (I checked their twitter) also doesn't believe any recent pandemic happened (no swineflu's ever), and it gets better the spanish flu also was a planned event, nor do they believe that anti-depressants help people, is a climategate truther etc (They are also pretty pro Israel in the current conflict but that should come as no surprise). So well done linking to that Scott.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If swine flu didn’t happen does that mean my lifelong cough is fake

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago

yes, you were actually poisoned by woke

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

DEI you mean, do keep up with the changing lingo. ;)

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