Our official order from the governor is called "shelter-in-place." In some states, it's called a "stay at home order." We have called it many names over the past two months, ranging from "quarantine" to "lockdown." During this extended time at home, it's been easy to consume far too much media about COVID-19. With ever-changing statistics about the virus rolling in daily, there are new conspiracy theories popping up every day as well. I call them "conspiracy theories" loosely because as I've discovered more about the corruption of our government and the media, I've learned that many narratives that question either of those two institutions get labeled as conspiracies when often they are (at least partially) grounded in truth. Here are some of the main theories that have been circulating around alternative news sources and social media for the past two months: Democrats want this virus to decimate the economy, so Trump doesn't get re-elected.The virus was intentionally created in a lab and released -- possibly as a form of biowarfare from China.The virus is being used as a distraction as the Trump administration and U.S. military rescue trafficked children and/or bring down a ring of elite pedophiles.The virus has probably been in our nation undetected since November since containing a pathogen between China and the U.S. is improbable with intercontinental air travel. Therefore, hundreds of thousands of people have already been exposed to the virus, have antibodies, and the death rates are much lower than those published on the news.Governors shut down schools to widely roll-out 5G technology, which emits EMF radiation and will be detrimental to human health (Trump did sign a 5G expansion bill on March 23, 2020).Effective treatments for Coronavirus include vitamin C, zinc, hydroxychloroquine (malaria medicine), Pepcid, or Z-packs, among others, but head health officials refuse to acknowledge these treatments because they are not patentable and won't make money.Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Rockefellers, etc. are using the virus (possibly a planned pandemic or, at the very least, a long-awaited one) to move forward with pushing universally mandated vaccines, from which they will profit greatly. Hospitals are inflating numbers of COVID-19 deaths. This could be to help justify the economic shut-down once it became obvious that the virus was not as deadly as hypothesized. Or hospitals could be trying to reimburse their profit losses as Medicare pays more for COVID deaths and for patients put on ventilators.Governors and legislatures in states that were already struggling financially before the pandemic are using the situation to beg the federal government for funding.News of Kawasaki-like illness in children with COVID may simply be in line with the normal statistics of children who develop Kawasaki each year (some of whom will presumably have COVID antibodies now that the virus has circulated widely for months). This could be a fear-mongering ploy to keep schools closed for longer since children do not seem susceptible to complications from Coronavirus.We are quickly moving toward embedding chips under the skin and becoming a cashless society, which means the end times of the Bible are upon us.Homeschooling may soon be outlawed on a federal level as the government uses the pandemic to exert control and squash individual liberty.Democrats want the nation to stay closed through the fall (or close back up in the fall due to a resurgence of the virus), so they can demand mail-in voting in all states and rig the election. Some of these theories seem to be true, at least partially, and others feel far-fetched. As you can imagine, it's exhausting keeping up with it all. I finally had to pull a media fast a few days ago and delete the social media apps from my phone. I planned to take a break for just 24 hours, but it felt so nice to read no headlines and watch no news clips that I'm about hit 72 hours media-free. I will go back to engaging media eventually, but I needed a break from the constant stream of conflicting information. ... Read more