The Korea Times
WASHINGTON — An outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship is reviving conspiracy theories about vaccines, alleged depopulation campaigns and miracle cures that flourished during the Covid pandemic. The multilingual misinformation, which dominated online discourse and disrupted public health responses to the coronavirus, resurged even as the World Health Organization insisted Friday that there remained minimal risk to the general public from passengers of the MV Hondius. "LOCKDOWN ALERT: Globalists Launch Covid 2.0 As Hantavirus Spreads Worldwide," InfoWars founder Alex Jones said on X. "Just Like A Light Switch." A flurry of similar posts declared the outbreak a "plandemic" — borrowing from the title of a widely discredited pseudo-documentary from 2020 that pushed falsehoods about Covid. A passenger is believed to have contracted the rare respiratory disease before boarding the ship in Argentina and infecting others on board. Yet, an AFP analysis found widespread claims alleging a sinister plot to force vaccines on the masses, coerce people into lockdown, or swa
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