Zarrar Khuhro writes about Pakistan's obsession with writing coronavirus off as a conspiracy:

If you’ve tried to talk sense to a coronavirus conspiracy theorist, you must have realised by now that you simply cannot win.

Take the popular conspiracy theory that hospitals are paying patients up to Rs5 lakh to get them to declare the deaths of their loved ones as coronavirus related.

Now, logically, one could argue that you could hire a target killer for far less — Rs1 lakh for a proper professional — and then pocket the rest making it a fairly bad bargain for the hospitals who will undoubtedly then see people driving up trucks filled with corpses looking to make a tidy, if morbid, profit.

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