Fact Check: 'Covid911 - Insurgency' Video Pushes Several
Falsehoods And Unproven Conspiracy Theories
Hoax Alert
Jul 2, 2020 by: Eric Ferkenhoff
Is the COVID-19 pandemic a conspiracy manufactured by "Deep State Democrats" and the "mass media" to disrupt, even rig, the upcoming presidential election in a bid to topple Donald Trump? And did the coronavirus provide the perfect cover for the mass racial justice protests since the death of George Floyd after being knelt on for nearly nine minutes by a Minneapolis police officer? No, there is no evidence to support any of this.
The claims appear in a video (archived here) put up on YouTube on June 28, 2020, titled "Covid911 - INSURGENCY." The lengthy written intro to the video read in part:
"You're being scammed by enemies of America who occupy powerful positions in government and the media. November 2020 is the way we, the people, can fight back. Know your enemy. Ditch the masks. Rise. #Covid911 I expect a swift deletion, because the enemy we are fighting controls this battleground."
First, the pandemic is very real, with experts saying as many as 100,000 new cases could soon be reported every day in the U.S. Also, the Democratic Party does not control or own "mass media." In fact, Fox News is the most-watched news channel in America, and news at the network leans very much to the right politically. Moreover, the police officer who knelt on Floyd has been charged with murder; there is no proof Floyd died as some planned action to create chaos in America's streets and ruin business and the overall economy.
The video, which lasts more than nine minutes, makes many claims about the greed of the political left, the mainstream media and other players to suggest that a "coordinated, irregular warfare insurgency" has been launched against America and President Trump. Almost minute-to-minute, the video's claims are all false or misleading.
For example, after more than a minute and a half of talking about war and the "light" that "turned on" with the election in 2016, the build-up ends with the warning that a war being waged against the country is "the biggest political hoax and mass-media disinformation campaign in living history. You may know it as COVID-19."
This is false, despite many conspiracists believing the novel coronavirus is a hoax. President Trump has acknowledged the frightening reality presented by the coronavirus, as Lead Stories has reported. As of June 30, the U.S. had tallied more than 2.7 million confirmed cases of the virus, and it has reported nearly 130,000 deaths from COVID-19."
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https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/07/fact-check-covid911-Insurgency-video-contains-several-falsehoods-and-unproven-conspiracy-theories.html