these type of claims do make me laugh, albeit in a sadly sardonic sort of way.
Humanity has suffered plagues and the like for millennia. Black Death anyone? Typhoid or yellow fever? Spanish flu? In the more religious times of the past these were either the work of the devil or gods judgement. People would flock to church, pray like ballyhoo and give thanks when the epidemic burnt itself out, as they nearly always do given time.
However these days in the west at least, we are a mainly secular society, where we live in more enlightened times, and majority of folks understand the way pandemics work, if only on a base level. Hell, there are even a series of quite entertaining flash computer games that explain the basics...
http://www.gamingdelight.com/games/pandemic.php
http://www.addictinggames.com/strategy-games/pandemic2.jsp
http://pandemic3.com/
(3 is not out of beta yet, but the release is imminent)
But stuff like death my ebola or zika mutated kids is still scary, and to those who already have a 'faith' in conspiracy and a distrust in science and authorities they are perfect prods into a form of neo-religious behaviour where Bill Gates and the rest of the NWO-lizard people elite replace the evil demons and David Icke and the rest of the conspiracy gurus become replacements for god. They think that by trusting in their gurus and by preaching their 'this the work of our modern day demons' mantras they will make a difference and if they can't stop the plagues then at least they will die knowing they have done their mentors 'good works'. Then when the pandemic burns out, they will claim it is their exposure of 'the truth' that cased the elite to stop their nefarious doings.
However the really sad thing is, they fail to see what really causes these pandemics to spread and be so devastating. The poverty, the lack of clean water, the social inequality etc, and if they put half the effort they expend on spreading their gurus bunk into addressing the real cause of these outbreaks, then something positive may well result. But sadly that would involve understanding real science and living in the real world, things the CT crowd don't believe in and don't want to do.
