Farts Weren’t Captured by Thermal Cameras While Looking for Coronavirus

Back in early February, the coronavirus was known to have sickened roughly 20,000 people and killed 427, most of them in China. The disease hadn’t even been given the name covid-19. But fake news was already spreading about different ways that governments were trying to monitor for the virus. This video went viral, supposedly showing people who were caught farting by covid-tracking thermal cameras. But the video was fake, made by a viral video creator site called Banana Factory in 2016.