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Nearly 1-In-3 Americans Believe Coronavirus Was Made
In A Lab
BY BRINKWIRE
ON APRIL 16, 2020
"As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect millions of Americans’ daily lives, a debate has arisen about how the outbreak spread and, ultimately, where the fault lies for this crisis. An increasing number of Americans — nearly one-in-three — now say COVID-19 was artificially created in a lab.
A recent survey conducted by Pew Research found that 29% of Americans hold this view, most of whom (23%) said the coronavirus was created deliberately in a lab. Even still, most (43%) said the disease was natural, though a quarter said they were unsure.
So far, health experts have agreed that the coronavirus was most likely naturally occurring.
This trend shows how conspiracy theories are gaining traction as Americans increasingly seek the origins of this crisis. Although the narrative that the disease was artificially created originated in fringe online groups, it has clearly begun to shift into the mainstream."
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=False Prophet==
Published 9 hours ago
on April 15, 2020
By Team NewsLagoon
"In the conservative media, talking heads and talk-radio hosts have labored to convince their audiences that—despite what they may have heard—the president never doubted the gravity of the coronavirus. Central to this case is Trump’s decision in late January to restrict travel from China, when the severity of the outbreak in Wuhan was becoming clear.
Skeptics on both the right and the left have dismissed the move as a token measure that did little to prepare the U.S. for an imminent outbreak. A more generous assessment may be that while restricting travel from China slowed the spread of the virus on the West Coast, Trump’s delay in restricting travel from Europe helped turn New York into the pandemic’s global epicenter. In any case, the policy is cited incessantly on Fox News as proof of Trump’s prescience. Sean Hannity has predicted that it will “go down as the single most consequential decision in history,” and mused, “How [much] worse could this have been if the president didn’t act that quickly?”
To sharpen their narrative, Trump’s allies have taken to juxtaposing his travel restriction with cherry-picked clips of journalists downplaying the threat of the virus earlier this year. Donald Trump Jr. recently shared such a supercut with his 2.6 million Instagram followers alongside an all-caps message: “THE MEDIA WANTS YOU TO THINK MY DAD DIDN’T TAKE CHINA VIRUS SERIOUSLY. WELL LISTEN TO THIS.”"
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https://newslagoon.com/false-prophet/18309/