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In his original post [https://web.archive.org/web/20240529103717/https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-may-2024] he said: >4: Related, breaking news: A popular Substack claims that COVID didn’t happen at all [https://pandauncut.substack.com/p/every-single-aspect-of-the-covid], and that both “lab leak” and “natural origins” are part of the higher-level conspiracy to distract people from the fact that there was never a virus in the first place. He later edited the post to add: >I wonder if I could even more Substack likes if I one-upped them with a theory that lockdowns never even happened, and it was just one of those Berenstein Bear or Mandela Effect things where everyone has a false memory. So now it’s ironic, and therefore not harmful to spread the conspiracy theory to his large audience.