NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has sent conspiracy theorists wild with an innocent comment about life after lockdown when pubs reopen.
Multiple social media accounts accused the state's most senior health bureaucrat of having a secret agenda after she hinted QR codes were likely to stay so people could be contacted if they had visited a Covid exposure site.
'We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the new world order,' Dr Chant said on Thursday.
Dr Chant's choice of words has triggered conspiracy theorists because the term 'New World Order' has, since the 1990s, been associated with the fear of a tyrannical, one-world government.
Video of her comments, from her daily press conference with Premier Gladys Berejiklian, has been posted across Twitter, attracting plenty of debate.
Rebecca Wellard suggested sinister motives behind Dr Chant's choice of words.
'New World Order? Listen... we've been told! Was this an accidental mention? New World Order,' she said.
Someone else suggested the state government's drive to fully vaccinate 70 per cent of the New South Wales population, aged 16 and over, by mid-October to end lockdowns was evidence of a New World Order plot.
'A slip..?? And with the "Jab" being pursued with pretty much manic obsession, one could surely be suspicious of a NWO ulterior motive...if one was a conspiracy theorist,' he said.
But another comment on Twitter mocked the conspiracy theorists.
'Anti-vaxxers be losing their minds over that comment,' she said.
The American Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group, said right-wing conspiracy theorists had used the term 'New World Order' since the 1990s to suggest socialists were out to eliminate the freedom-orientated United States.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has sent conspiracy theorists wild with an innocent comment about life after lockdown when pubs reopen.
Multiple social media accounts accused the state's most senior health bureaucrat of having a secret agenda after she hinted QR codes were likely to stay so people could be
