Postcards from the Lockdown: Divided We Stand
“Some people carefree, some anxious. The sword of Damocles for all” Pierre Brossolette. Day 13 of the lockdown. Various conspiracy theories and theorists keep on popping up in conversations and social feeds, and there's no lack of ears listening to them at the moment. American's did it on purpose, no! it was Chinese with their bio-dis-information warfare, they are planning to take the world's lead! All is being shared, copied and pasted, looked at without any degree of skepticism. Who said that? What are the sources, evidence, proof? What are the reasons behind it? Why would those countries started such actions at the cost of their own people? At this point you can bring any fantastical theory to life without much of critique because people seem to be preoccupied with fear and confusion, easy pray for scaremongers. Watching BBC news for 2 minutes the other day gave me anxiety so strong I decided to avoid it altogether and only digest the news through reading it ...