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  • Sorcha Taylor
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min read

Was COVID-19 an orchestrated pandemic?

Is there a one-party dictatorship trying to control the world? Is the COVID-19 pandemic actually a 'plandemic'?

Photo by Paul Becker via Flickr

The Conspiracy

COVID-19 was planned by various high-profile individuals and institutions in order to establish a one-party dictatorship that controls the world.

The Origins

The phrase 'plandemic' (planned epidemic) was used frequently on social media platforms during the first few months of 2020 as a term and a hashtag to promote the belief that the pandemic is fake (either does not exist, or is man made).


Sharing a deep distrust in medicine and science, believers of the 'plandemic' come from all political backgrounds.


Other names and phrases used by conspiracy believers regarding COVID-19 include 'The Great Reset' and 'The New World Order.'


On May 4, 2020, Mikki Willis uploaded a 26-minute long 'documentary' video titled Plandemic to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and a host website.


By May 11 the video had been viewed more than 8 million times across various platforms; the video was then removed from Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo but continued to circulate elsewhere online.


The Facts

Plandemic is presented by Judy Mikovits, a discredited research scientist, who claims that the Covid-19 virus was orchestrated by big pharma, Bill Gates and the WHO.


Mikovits was involved in scientific fraud dating back to 2009. Her findings in retrovirus research were discredited by legitimate scientists, who pointed to laboratory contamination and fraudulent mislabeling of data. However, she insisted her research was being covered up by the "scientific establishment"—meanwhile, her claims that retroviruses cause autism were picked up by the anti-vaccination community in recent years.

Mikovits also claims the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (headed by Dr Anthony Fauci) buried her research showing vaccines weaken people’s immune systems and make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Plandemic is closely tied to anti-vaccine groups, in the United States and around the globe.

The Origins

How did this conspiracy theory spread so rapidly? A New York Times team were able to trace the beginning of its momentum to a Facebook QAnon page (a separate rightwing conspiracy theory).


A similar video titled Hold Up was released in France, and another circulated throughout Africa, Europe and North America that claimed the President of Ghana endorsed the conspiracy theory of a 'plandemic.'

Photo via the BBC

The Facts

The video claims to expose baseless accusations of corruption and collusion among politicians and global elites; it demonized public health figures.


Presently, a large proportion of the general public rely on websites for information, especially in relation to health advice. Website algorithms collect user’s data history, and filter results based on previous searches; this can lead to online vacuums of one-sided debates on controversial topics, like vaccinations and COVID-19.


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