Some 20% of Americans believe in the conspiracy theory that microchips may have been planted inside COVID-19 vaccines that millions of people have already taken worldwide, according to a study by YouGov and The Economist that was conducted last week.
Despite a lack of evidence to support such a claim, the poll concluded overall that 15% of Americans said this conspiracy theory was “probably true” while another 5% said it was “definitely true.”
The same poll concluded that 27% of people aged 30-44 support this theory, with 8% of Biden voters and 29% of Trump voters believed it. Some 14% of Democratic voters and 32% of Republican voters also shared the same sentiment.
Misinformation regarding COVID-19 has been a controversial subject during the past year. Just recently, US President Joe Biden said that misinformation spreading on social media regarding the virus has been “killing people.”
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Perhaps the problem is more the vacillation in “true” reports. Lack of consistency. When in doubt a good response formerly was wait and see. There is a lot to learn and incorporate about allopathic medicine, pharmaceuticals, our immune systems, our polluted biome. Complex times! Chaos is emblematic of change. Change we must. What got us here is not the way forward.
Even if this was true on the most absolutely absurd level, why would anyone care unless they were doing something wrong?
People don’t need microchips to watch you! There’s everything from cell phones, to remote view to do that!
Sowing seeds of mistrust through misinformation, in our people, country, government, scientific, and health organizations, has very divisive, and failing consequences.
It doesn’t help empower any of us to action, in solving the dire factual issues we are truly facing.