As we’re all aware, COVID-19 conspiracy theories are running amok among the right wingnuts these days. Here’s a great example from today in Virginia, from faaaar-right State Senator Amanda Chase, who believes that Gov. Ralph Northam “is setting this up so that when all those laws go into effect July 1 and you’re angry and you’re upset and you want to storm the Capitol.”
For more, see highlights and video below and also Blue Virginia.
- Gov. Northam is supposedly planning to announce, today at 2 pm, that he’s shutting down the state “past June” – or maybe even something she calls “beyond the pale.” She adds that Northam is “setting this up to extend the deadline…past August…do you see where I’m going with this?”
- Gov. Northam is supposedly not “heeding the health care experts from across the country” that Virginia would “peak” in late April, and is supposedly “not looking at the entire picture.”
- “He is setting this up so that when all those laws go into effect July 1 and you’re angry and you’re upset and you want to storm the Capitol, he’s setting it up – mark my words, I hope I’m wrong – that you can’t go out and protest, because Virginia will still be under his executive order. Do you see where I’m going with this?”
- “We can go to Lowe’s, we can go to the ABC store, and we can get abortions, but we cannot go to church and we cannot keep our businesses open.”
- “We also need to take into account some of these new discoveries, new drugs that are actually working and getting people back to work. They’re allowing people to –
it almost seems like a cure for COVID. I mean, 24 hours later, people are
reovering, instead of the three to four weeks time period. So I think we need to look at there’s there a couple states that are actually implementing that statewide.”
P.S. Also see here for some more lunacy, this time from former Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA07) and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. Among other things, Falwell says: “It’s like Rahm Emanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste…they’re all about their…socialist ideology and they’ll use any human suffering, any crisis to further their ends…The enemy is real, they really don’t have any care for the well-being of average Americans, they just want power, they’re authoritarian, they’re like nothing like I’ve seen since, if you go back in history, Nazi Germany…they just want to control everybody, they’re socialistic.”