Social media corporations seek to restrict the spread of the conscientiously produced film, which premiered on August 18, 2020 and is part of a trend of erroneous data about the new coronavirus that has been spreading on the Internet for months, sowing concerns and lies about a virus that has killed more than 778,000 people since it first made the impression in China in 2019.
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Made in the lab
In the film’s central statement that coronavirus is a component of a plan, Dr. Meryl Nass argues that the virus is man-made.
“At the beginning of this pandemic, I didn’t think coronavirus was an occurrence of herb-based bats. I’m convinced it’s a lab-designed organization,” Nass says.
The claim, however, is false.
In February 2020, more than two dozen public fitness scientists published a medical journal The Lancet that read, “We stand in solidarity to strongly condemn conspiracy theories that suggest coVID-19 has no herbal origin.”
“Scientists from several countries have analyzed the genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) coronavirus 2, and overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originates in wildlife,” they said.
A team of scientists led by Shan-Lu Liu of Ohio State University also concluded that there is “credible evidence” that the virus, officially known as SARS-CoV-2, was conceived in a laboratory in studies published on February 26.
And Dr. Julian Leibowitz, a coronavirus expert who is a professor of pathogenesis and microbial immunology at Texas A-M Medical School, said of the statement: “This is on many levels.”
“SARS-CoV-2 is NOT a laboratory-created virus,” he said.
Preplanned
At some other time, the film seeks to paint the similarities between “Event 201”, an October 2019 training that simulates a pandemic, and the upcoming coronavirus crisis as evidence that everything is a component of a plan.
“The 201 event took up position five months before COVID-19 declared a pandemic. The participants on the occasion were some of the same people who are now deeply concerned about the genuine pandemic, and also gain advantages from it,” says Mikki Willis, the film director.
David E. Martin, to whom the film is presented, later says that “the situation we are destined to accept” is “this glorious universe of impromperability where occasions co-emerge and nature folds conveniently into our architecture.”
But the Center for Health Safety at Johns Hopkins University, which organized the occasion in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said it did not anticipate the existing epidemic and instead aimed to “highlight situations that demand preparation and reaction. chances are that happens in a very severe pandemic.”
The “About” page of the training read: “In recent years, the world has experienced a growing number of epidemics, or about two hundred occasions consistent with the year.”
“Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global, a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences.”
The film cites Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as a warning of a “surprise epidemic.”
He “knew as early as January 2017 that we were going to see an epidemic before the end of 2020,” says Willis, suggesting that Fauci had prior knowledge.
But Fauci’s full reviews make it clear that this is a general warning that he did not come with an express year.
“The story of the last 32 years in which I director of NIAID will tell the next management that there is no doubt in anyone’s brain that they will face the demanding situations faced by their predecessors,” Fauci said at first. of his comments.
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Fears of vaccines
In addition to claiming that the coronavirus crisis was planned, the film also seeks to raise fears about vaccines that can help deal with it.
It includes a clip from CBS News in which Norah O’Donnell asks Bill Gates about the effects of the Modern COVID-19 candidate vaccine, lately in clinical trials, and the presenter says 80% of participants suffered a systemic effect.
However, a systemic-looking effect is any adverse effect on which it is not found at the injection site.
According to the National Institutes of Health, “None of the participants experienced serious side effects of the vaccine. However, more than the part reported fatigue, headache, chills or pain at the injection site. These symptoms were not more common after vaccination and in which they won the vaccine dose.”
In the past, AFP Fact Check has denied false claims about vaccine protection as a component of the accelerated timetable for the progression of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Suite
The film, which lasts approximately one hour and 24 minutes, is the sequel to a shorter video released in May 2020 featuring a discredited investigator who made a series of false and misleading claims about the virus. The AFP Fact Check discredited it here.
Unlike the previous video, the release of this film was announced and divided into 16 portions to facilitate its distribution on social networking sites.
The film created on London Real’s “Digital Freedom Platform,” which he founded through Bryan Rose, who introduced it.
London Real’s “About” page describes Rose as a former banker who introduced a podcast and created a media corporation that provided lots of interviews “as an antidote to the anesthetic effects of the mainstream media.
Rose strongly promoted the film on Twitter before the broadcast began, and also stated that there had been “BIG denial-of-service brute force attacks” aimed at obstructing its release.
The “Digital Freedom Platform” features the original “Plandemic” video and also includes segments that falsely announce that social estrangement and vaccines will exacerbate the coronavirus pandemic and that masks are useless and accustomed to the population.
Masks and social estrangement are done through the U.S. fitness government. As a means to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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Social media response
Social media corporations will restrict the distribution of the film.
“Because the previous Plandemic video violated our COVID misinformation policies, we blocked access to this domain from our services,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP email.
“This most recent video includes claims about COVID-19 that our data verification partners have continually evaluated as false, so we’ve reduced their distribution and added a caution tag that shows its effects to the viewer,” the spokesman said.
According to Twitter, the URL leading to the entire video is marked as insecure and some parts of the video would possibly violate the site’s rules.
And according to YouTube, it has noticed little activity, however it deletes full versions of the video because it violates its COVID-19 disinformation policies.
The AFP Fact Check has discredited more than six hundred examples of false or misleading data about the new coronavirus crisis. You can find a complete list of our verification of data on the subject in English here.
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