There are many, prominent conspiracy theorists out there, who are very good at joining the dots, and convince many. However, they are never self-critical and never acknowledge any flaws in their argument. And worse, they think everything is a conspiracy, and nothing happens naturally. Not even hurricanes and volcanoes. Not even rain.

Recently there was a 5G/coronavirus theory doing the rounds, because China is big on 5G, blah blah blah. No mention of how big 5G is in Iran, or how it is clearly spreading virally…

Now I am seeing in depth discussions of how it was caused by the USA to destroy their economic rival. Again, well-argued, but misses the obvious questions:

• Why wasn’t the USA more prepared for if/when it arrived on their shores? It is looking like the USA will suffer much more than China
• Why not just do something non-viral, like poisoning the water supplies?

And 6 weeks after it was published, there are some obvious problems:

This appears to be precisely the case with this new virus, in that all the infected persons are Chinese. News reports speak of infections appearing in Thailand or the US, but those (at least to date of writing) were all Chinese who had been to Wuhan. There have been no cases so far of infected Caucasians.

As with SARS, this new virus appears to be tightly-focused and race-specific to Chinese.

They also reference a lot of their info (although if you visit the links and read, they are often quoted out of context), and slip in ideas without a reference (did a carrier pigeon deliver the info?), like this one:

American bioscientists caught by the police inside of China doing illegal acts.

They throw in patents… hint: every wacky idea has been patented, doesn’t mean squat.

And, keep this in mind, conspiracy theorists never make outright claims, because they don’t wish to be quoted when they are proven wrong. Instead they ask lots of rhetorical questions, intermingled with “facts” and create the effect of a statement, without saying it.