According to the article, the number 1 searched conspiracy theory in ND is that Bill Gates is trying to use the pandemic to implant everybody with a microchip. Me typing that right there, is the first time implantation of a trackable microchip has been mentioned in this thread (unless my search missed it).
As for the masks and government being misleading, when the government makes statements and then immediately backtracks on those statements (how the virus is spread), or backtracks months later (masks), there are obviously going to be doubters.