A tweet transcribed and shared on Imgur was a sobering comparison of August 2021 COVID-19 deaths in Florida to all military deaths in Afghanistan.
Posts on Reddit purportedly show a rugby game with many spectators in New Zealand on June 26 2020.
A Marine who recently returned from Japan expressed frustration on TikTok with Americans refusing to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When face masks became a part of daily life, glasses fogging up became an annoyance; a popular Facebook post posits that medical tape might solve the issue.
One of many overdramatic circulating Facebook posts claims that the use of face masks is proof positive the United States has become “an obedient socialist country.”
Iterations of a Durex ad featuring a mask for “going out” and a condom “for going in” during the COVID-19 pandemic are plentiful, but none seem to be part of official Durex marketing.
In June 2020, a viral post maintained the 2005 film “V for Vendetta” was set in the year 2020, and that it centered around the use of a virus to control people.
A viral photograph purportedly shows small children playing all alone in individual “chalk squares” marked on the playground asphalt.
A frightening (and fake) letter attributed to the California Department of Social Services circulated on Facebook, claiming that residents were being forced to submit to COVID-19 testing under threat of taking their children away.
A viral Facebook meme misrepresents why hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine fell from favor and remdesivir became the next great COVID-19 hope.
