Alright, for those of you not in the discord and not familiar with the characters I work with. My company's sole HR lady is a real piece of work. She's 67, ultra conservative, from Ohio, racist, and just a giganctic cunt in general. We literally call her garbage cunt in the discord, or GC for short. She's just in general a pretty terrible person and probably the worst possible HR rep you could ever have.
Ok now that the introductions have been made, here's the lovely little gem I encountered this morning.
GC was looking extra proud of herself when she overheard a political discussion between myself and a couple other coworkers. We were discussing the various democratic candidates and our thoughts on them, she decided this was her in to show her superior knowledge about the Coronavirus pandemic.
She proudly shows us a picture of a lysol can which states 'human coronavirus' on it and proceeds to explain to us that this proves it isn't really a new virus like the liberal media would have us all believe. She then takes a running leap into a conspiracy theory that I still am not 100% sure how the concept of the virus not being new plays into. She believes that Bernie Sanders is working with China to orchestrate this pandemic to spread the virus to the US to unseat Trump and eventually turn the USA into China 2.0.
Before anyone asks, I did try to explain to her how viruses mutate and China has some pretty gross market conditions with meat that caused the outbreak in the first place. That it's a new strain of the virus, not a completely new virus in and of itself. That a vaccine is already in the works and slated to be ready for the public in 16-18 months(Last I checked at least, that ETA may be different now). She was not having it. Bernie Sanders is behind the Coronavirus and that's that in her world.
I was baffled, ya'll. Plumb flabberghasted. I couldn't let it rest so I did some digging and later asked her in private to elaborate on this grand theory. I didn't think it could get better, but it did... It did.
Apparently, Bernie Sanders has used some of his campaign funding to pay off the Chinese government to somehow "genetically manipulate" the virus into the "super" virus it is now. That the mishandling of the pandemic is on purpose to spread the virus to the US. She then went on to explain that the liberal media is in on this conspiracy as well, covering for Bernie by calling it a "new" virus and launching a new smear campaign against Trump. She is convinced that if/when Bernie wins the election, he will then have his followers infiltrate the postal service and contaminate packages with the virus to spread it across the US. Everyone will be too sick/dying to stop him from fully communizing the US. We'll be China 2.0 within 4 years.
I'm still pretty shook, ya'll. And I just had to share. I did promise I'd start sharing this stuff in the forums more often after all. It's like I'm a magnet for idiots. Anyway, enjoy this latest conspiracy theory and feel free to share any other fascinating Bernie Sanders conpsiracies or Coronavirus theories you've come across. Or just comment on the hilarity of GC's theory. Either way, I hope this made you all feel just a little bit smarter for knowing you at least aren't as dumb as GC is.