With more and more cases of the rare monkeypox virus being confirmed worldwide, it is only a matter of time before conspiracy theorists start sharing their opinions on what might have caused the recent monkeypox epidemic.
In a recent episode of his InfoWars show, Alex Jones decided to spread a new and wild untruth about the cause of the current global monkeypox outbreak: the Covid-19 vaccine.
He opened the segment by reminding his audience that Bill Gates, often the target of ridicule by anti-vaccination and conspiracy theorists, last year "bragged about the millions of dollars he invested in research and development of a Covid-19 vaccine 'how big measles is. The cause of the next pandemic could be and how it would be 'much worse.'
"Then they all ordered the new monkey vaccine; Biden bought tens of millions of doses yesterday," the InfoWars host began. "And then, just as the vaccine was delivered, monkeypox appeared in more than 20 countries."
However, Jones was wrong about Gates' alleged: "show off." Microsoft founder and philanthropist interviewed Health Exchange Committee Chair Jeremy Hunt at Policy Exchange last year, where he warned that governments must prepare for smallpox terrorist attacks. However, that moment was missed by Mr. Jones when he cracked a paranoid joke trying to erroneously link Covid-19 vaccines, specifically J&J and AstraZeneca, to the recent epidemic of monkeypox, which the World Health Organization has confirmed at least 80 cases in at least a dozen. Country in recent days.
"What are AstraZeneca and J&J? They are viral vectors that inject the chimpanzee genome into your cells and then instruct your cells to replicate those commands, using the virus to deliver the packets," he said. One of the problems with Jones' remarks, which Twitter users were quick to point out as potentially defamatory, stemmed from his claim that both vaccines contain replicating viral vectors when they do not.
