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'Conspiracy theories have become normalised in Britain', says BBC disinformation correspondent (inews.co.uk)

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[–] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

One very real hypothesis was that masking was gonna make things worse, because we weren’t sure if it was airborne or not yet, and that masking might make people touch their faces more often.

Was that actually real? I was under the impression that this was a red herring used to make sure lab and medical professionals got ahold of PPE before the general public could hoard it all.