By: Natasha Archary
“Believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see,” or so the saying goes. When it comes to conspiracy theories, there are too many that play on in the minds of millions of people all over the world.
The Covid-19 pandemic was the most recent event that had skeptics picking everything apart, from whether the virus was real, to what was actually in the Covid-19 vaccines that we were pushed to take.
One of theories that were doing the rounds over the Covid-19 vaccines was that Bill Gates was trying to take over the world.
People were so convinced that the vaccines that Gates funded had a microchip that would track our movements as a control mechanism.
Others believed that the vaccines were actually how the Covid-19 virus and all its variants were spreading at such an alarming rate.
The pandemic which gripped the world, and saw South Africans wearing masks for almost 2-years really altered life in general.
Conspiracy or not, globally, as of 11h04 on 19 April 2023, there were 763, 740 140 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
There were 6, 908, 554 deaths linked to the virus and a total of 13, 322, 849, 443 vaccine does were administered.
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Biggest conspiracy theory of all time
There’s one conspiracy theory that refuses to die, and it’s that despite it being 27-years later since Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting, there’s belief the rapper is still alive.
Tupac was 25-years when he was shot 4 times in the chest at a stoplight in Las Vegas.
But the rapper remains one of the most-talked about artists of all time, and perhaps this is why it feels like he is, to this day so omnipresent.
One of the theories suggests Tupac switched with a double and was flown out of Las Vegas by helicopter after learning someone was planning to assassinate him.
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