On January 19, 2021, the Facebook page “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians) published a video with a text claiming that Boris Johnson has known about the coronavirus pandemic in advance and according to the author, his speech recorded few months before the pandemic is a proof of that. Video attached to the post is footage with Georgian-language voice-over from U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech to United Nations General Assembly summit on September 24-30, 2019. In his speech, the U.K leader speaks about contemporary scientific breakthroughs and future scenarios of technological developments. According to Johnson, the latest scientific breakthroughs improve countless human lives and that’s why anti-scientific sentiments and fear must be overcome. In the text published by the “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians), the emphasis is on the Prime minister’s mention of the anti-vaxxer movement and nanotechnologies. According to the page, this speech confirms that the world leaders created a “fake pandemic” to vaccinate humankind and change human genetics using nanotechnologies.
As of 22:00, January 20, post by the “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians) has 134 shares. On January 20, an identical post was published by the page “ენა, მამული, სარწმუნოება” (Language, Homeland, Religion).
The claim of the “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians) alleging that the pandemic was known before the emergence of the coronavirus is a conspiracy based on the misinterpretation of Boris Johnson’s speech. In Johnson’s video, there’s no mention of coronavirus, pandemic, and/or altering the genetics of the world population through universal vaccination. Johnson doesn’t mention nanotechnologies in the context of vaccines. Whereas, the anti-vaxxer movement as a global challenge to healthcare, isn’t solely related to coronavirus.
- What does Boris Johnson say about anti-vaxxers and nanotechnologies?
According to the “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians), Boris Johnson attacked anti-vaxxers in his speech because he has known about the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent growth of the anti-vaxxer movement in advance.
In reality, the anti-vaxxer movement isn’t solely related to the coronavirus pandemic. Anti-mandatory vaccine activists have emerged back in the 19th century in England and were against mandatory smallpox vaccination. The anti-vaxxer movement was a relevant issue in 2017-2019 as well. In 2019, given the alarming surge of measles cases, the World Health Organization named the anti-vaxxer movement as one of the main public health challenges. Boris Johnson mentions the anti-vaxxer movement in the context of global threats, as an example of anti-scientific sentiments:
Boris Johnson: Today [there are] people who are still actually anti-science, the whole movement called the anti-vaxxers who refuse to acknowledge the evidence that vaccinations have eradicated smallpox and who by their prejudices are actually endangering the very children they want to protect”
Unlike “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians), Johnson doesn’t link vaccine and artificial intelligence to nanotechnologies.
Ongoing studies on nanotechnologies is a new field in modern medicine and physics and it can play an important role in the treatment of numerous diseases including cancer since they have the ability to transmit information and medication into the body rapidly and with a high degree of accuracy. However, the claim as if nanorobots will be implanted through vaccines and with it, the body will be linked to artificial intelligence or as if it will genetically modify the body isn’t backed up by the scientific evidence. Boris Jonson hasn’t made such a statement.
Ongoing studies on nanorobots name the possibility of their future use in vaccines as one of the technological perspectives, however such technology yet to exist. “Myth Detector” has previously written about various disinformation spread about nanotechnologies and vaccines. Read more in the articles:
Gates Labels the Conspiracy About Nanorobots in Vaccine “Stupid and Strange”
Disinformation about Nanorobots, German Regulations, and Vaccines
Post from “ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები” (Bible Believing Christians) repeats the old disinformation alleging that coronavirus RNA vaccine will alter human genetics, which is not based on science. Given chemical differences, the RNA of coronavirus cannot impact the genetic material of human cells. Read more in the articles prepared by “Myth Detector”:
RNA or DNA-Based Vaccine?
What does Gates Plan Mean and Who is Behind Disinformation about Risks of RNA Vaccine?
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