No. But for some reason the Australian government feels the need to address this issue on their website.
No. But for some reason the Australian government feels the need to address this issue on their website.
The Department of Health has published a blog on its ‘Is it true?’ website to combat a widely circulating conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccination connects humans to the internet.
The blog, titled ‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’, categorically rejects the claim.
It’s bizarre that the federal government of Australia needs to address such biologically implausible misinformation.
And this raises the question: who would believe that humans could be converted into cyborgs using a technology that’s centuries’ old? (Vaccines were invented in the 1700s).
The Back Page went on a little hunt around the internet to find who these people were exactly.
Apparently, one conspiracy theory that has been doing the rounds globally goes something like this: Bill Gates masterminded the pandemic in order to implant microchips into humans along with a COVID vaccine. (Around 14 countries have led efforts to debunk this theory, showing that it’s gained a foothold in multiple languages even though it’s totally ridiculous.)
There is also an image of a microchip being shared widely on social media that some people claim has been inserted into the COVID-19 vaccine. This image is actually the electric circuit of a guitar pedal.
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