COVID and Conspiracies

We need to talk. As a country, we have a serious problem. It is no longer limited to the paranoid corner of the nation. It is making its way to the mainstream. And yes, some in our media is helping to normalize this, and they should know better. This is about one of the mainstays for self-radicalization and growing doubt about the government and educated elites. And this cottage industry also includes candidates for office, who also should know better. However, they are picking on this corner of the QAnon rhetoric, and Q-Drops for the sake of their election.

So let’s start with the political class that is doing this. Locally Daryl Issa, formerly of CA-49, now running for CA-50, came out and told us a fascinating story. He doubts the number of infections and deaths due to COVID that Sacramento is releasing. Why? Because he knows that the most rabid Donald Trump base is also on board with this. Some are even rabid readers of far-right sites where this is circulating. Issa told KUSI that the death rates for healthy individuals are a fraction of one percent. This is happening all over far-right land.

Issa has been advocating the Swedish model, which is now seen as a mistake. From Objectivo, and English publication:

This Swedish model of relatively mild restrictions and a lax attitude towards the spread of the virus has been praised by some abroad and…