Lately there is all kind of conspiracy theories regarding the novel coronavirus. But I am pretty shocked with the stupid things people start believing in.
Some radicals argue that the coronavirus is a complot orchestrated by the capitalist world, the United States and the world's most richest and powerful to subjugate China's economy and hinder it from consolidating as 'the' main power. Let's make a pause here. Biological weapons do exist, but rationale denies that such weapons would be put in place without immunizing your own people. See, it is absurd! Every country is facing a major threat here.
Other irrational and vacuos propositions state that is, yet again, another capitalist covin to boost sales of products that don't have a big market to satisfy the offer and also to benefit pharmaceuticals with vaccine selling. First of all, the pharmaceutical and sanitizer sector comprise a small portion of the market, many companies like mask producers, can barely satisfy demand. Many big players in the pharmaceutical sector have abstained from joining in the race to develop a vaccine against the virus because of the precedent of significant losses in previous pursuits like with SARS or Ebola.
China's economy is not the only one that will take the burden. Several countries rely on tourism, Chinese exports, the Chinese market... That was just the beginning, now the hit is tangible and present over several borders, with virus cases popping all around the globe and prompting an economic slowdown.
Before all this happened, the stock market was rallying to historic highs. Who would have wanted their wins spoiled? These obtuse conspiracies are just bullshit.
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