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Left: Anti-lockdown and anti-Covid regulation protesters march in London, and an ICU patient is treated for Covid-19
SEVERAL prominent online Yes groups which have become Covid “conspiracy farms” must refocus or risk damaging the entire pro-independence cause, activists have warned.
The warnings come after Facebook groups with followers numbering in the tens of thousands shared posts claiming Covid has been overblown, that vaccines are ineffective, and that images of victims of the pandemic are simply propaganda.
One post on the “Scottish NOT British” (@ImScottishNotBritish) Facebook page, which has around 22,000 followers, claimed an image of a man lying dead on the streets of Wuhan during the first months of the pandemic was “laughable propaganda”.