A global pastime

Despite so many flights being grounded, someone must be spraying us with chemicals, given the fresh passion that the coronavirus crisis has injected into our favorite national pastime, now a global one: conspiracy theories.

Take George, for example, who insists that the family of a friend's cousin who died of an unrelated illness was forced to sign a document stating that he had died from Covid-19. "They're making the crisis appear worse than it is to push the Bill Gates vaccination," he argues. Then there's all sorts of "pundits," including among the clergy, who believe that the coronavirus is forcing in a new system of global governance.
Anyone who makes the mistake of underestimating the intensity and popularity of such views right now, is being obtuse. This is not just in Greece; similar views are gaining ground on social media in the United States, Europe and...