What's common on this thread is the OP and those who agree with him, attract mainly just abuse.
Many of us, including me, consider the "scam" accusation as plainly wrong and not standing up to simple logic and the daily news from around the world, and I wonder if some of the accusers do so wilfully rather than from genuine incomprehension.
Nevertheless, we ought recognise that there are people who believe the pandemic does not exist, are some seem to be sincere not just forum-stirrers; so more importantly than knowing they believe it, might be understanding why they do.
I could suggest one or two motives - but not here for the sake of objectivity, and I would be right for some but not others.
Mere sneering by either side at the other, won't work. That is childish, ill-mannered and futile; only deepening division.
SO....
- I accept the pandemic is all too horribly real, just as the 1918 Influenza and the Mediaeval to 17C Bubonic Plague, pandemics were horribly real.
- I also accept that some people think the present SARS-Covid19 pandemic (and those past plagues?) is organised, elaborate fiction; . What I do not understand though, is why they think so.
For the denial side of the bargain, I do not mean simply padding the belief with further beliefs, misused statistics, etc., because that does not explain the motive, and the supporting beliefs are probably individual. I mean instead, the motive for disseminating simply the denial belief as a whole.
