When Conspiracy Theories (Don’t) Make Sense
By: Eric Sentell
Tags: Covid 19, Politics, Coronavirus, Conspiracy Theories, Communication

Why Most Conspiracy Theories Don’t Make Sense

It’s so complicated, who could expect to pull it off?

There isn’t a clear incentive or pay-off.

It involves way too many people, too much coordination, and too much secret-keeping.

The alleged actions are self-defeating.

The alleged goals could be accomplished much easier.

In “Plandemic,” a doctor and anti-vaxxer, Judy Mikovits, claims that the Coronavirus isn’t a real threat but is being hyped to sell vaccines.

It’s Super-Complicated

According to the logic of “Plandemic,” Dr. Anthony Fauci and pretty much every public health official in the world is hyping a disease to sell a vaccine that doesn’t exist yet, will require a year or longer to develop, and may not be widely available initially.

That plan counts on a lot of things going right over a pretty long, unpredictable time-period. It depends on people experiencing or hearing about enough hardship from the disease (deaths, severe illness, etc.) to take the hype seriously. Then the timing of the vaccine has to be right.

There Isn’t a Clear Incentive

How do public health officials benefit from developing a vaccine for the government to give away for free? How do government leaders, especially in democracies, benefit from wrecking their countries’ economies on the scale of the Great Depression?

It Involves Too Many People

How exactly were most of the world’s leaders, health officials, and epidemiologists able to coordinate their messaging about Coronavirus?

Did they have a summit, or a giant Zoom meeting, where they agreed to exaggerate COVID’s risks so they could profit later from a vaccine they didn’t have yet?

And not one of them has come forward to blow the whistle? Not one of them has blabbed to the wrong person? Said or done something suspicious, like buy stock in Big Pharma?

The Actions Are Self-Defeating

While the world’s leaders, health officials, and epidemiologists were on that Zoom meeting, did they agree the potential profits of exaggerating COVID’s dangers would outweigh their personal losses in the stock market?

If “Plandemic” were true, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to downplay COVID’s dangers, preserve the stock market and the economy, and then come out with the vaccine and hype it?

Personally, I’d much rather have my cake and eat it, too. If I were going to exaggerate something, I’d exaggerate the thing I’m trying to sell rather than something that’ll wreck my stock portfolio.

The Goals Could Be Accomplished Easier

What would you do if you were trying to make money off a vaccine for a new disease?

Would you help people avoid getting the disease? Or would you hope for as many infections as possible?

If the plan is to make billions off a vaccine, then the best way would be to let everyone get sick so that they’d want the vaccine.

The worst way would be to exaggerate COVID’s risks so that people would take precautions, stay home, and stay healthy. People get flu vaccines every year because they’ve had the flu before. We don’t get vaccines for rare illnesses we’ve never had and are unlikely to get.