The coronavirus has come to completely dominate not only our daily lives but our economy and governmental policies, and while we were slow to understand exactly how this new variant of the RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus would impact the global population, a greater understanding of COVID-19 and the development of a number of vaccines has brought renewed hope.

No one is going to pretend that 2020 wasn’t a year of misery, despair and, unfortunately for some, death, but it finally looks like we are starting to win the battle against this most destructive of foes. And while the pandemic is far from over, we thought we might take a moment and look back at some of the more outlandish and bizarre theories people have attached to the emergence and subsequent spread of this disease.

From political spin to social media rumors, disinformation to misinformation and everything else in between, here we take a look at some of the wackiest and weirdest COVID-19 pandemic theories.