Alex Jones' Infowars is attempting to profit from the coronavirus outbreak

[tulipsandroses]

Alex Jones’ Infowars is attempting to profit from the coronavirus outbreak

Jones: “I am very sad about this virus and very sad about the bioweapons and things that are going on, but it is an opportunity for people to take advantage of the products we have”

Far-right conspiracy theory outlet Infowars has been aggressively hawking bulk food packages at inflated prices while spreading wild conspiracy theories about the coronavirus outbreak. Since December, the price of bulk food at Infowars’ online store has more than doubled with the biggest package costing nearly $3,000.

On December 31, China announced an outbreak of COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that started in Wuhan City, with the first known case dating back to December 1. The disease has since spread beyond China and is currently present in 53 countries, including the United States, and has stricken more than 83,000 people.

Infowars is selling bulk food at recently increased prices
As the virus continues to spread, and a pandemic becomes more likely, Alex Jones is using Infowars to panic his viewers while also trying to profit from them.

][link:https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/alex-jones-infowars-attempting-profit-coronavirus-outbreak|

[kimbutgar]

1. Fools and their money again parted by a conman.

[SunSeeker]

2. Alex Jones has no limit to his depravity. nt

[OneBlueDotBama]

3. Jones...

Is on the hook for millions due to recent court cases over Sandy Hook... lawyers are expensive as well, suspect they bill very high, as he's a total moron.

Hope those who have judgements or soon will have them, so the plaintiffs & their legal teams get paid.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

4. Jim Bakker has end of times fear mongering scam too.Gotta keep those "christians" in line--gods

..and all--just keep that money coming in folks and we'll all be saved is their spiel.

[abqtommy]

5. Hey Alex, stop on by and let me take advantage of your products by spreading them on my

garden...

[Newest Reality]

6. Sadly,

That's just the tip of the iceberg as well as the mindset of those who elected and have fealty for trump and also why Republicans can tell their constituents lies and spread nonsense in order to get them to vote against their own best interests.

They are all coming to a peak. It is belief over knowledge, fictions over facts and poor education contributes to the anti-intellectualism that celebrates ignorance and exemplifies the Dunning-Kruger effect.

They say you are a gatekeeper or suppressing them when you challenge their belief-based reality, (beliefs are common and fine, but I mean living in a fantasy land) and claim censorship when they are actually being the gatekeepers, (keeping information out) and they self-censor and will even become militant and threaten even calm refutations of their belief is truth version of consensus reality.

I know that there is so much that I do not know and I do not celebrate my own ignorance. If I don't know or am not sure, I have access to a plethora of information and I have the capacity to discern and the motivation to find out. That's all I can recommend to the devoted believers of religion-like conspiracy theories: motivate yourself to find out, or suspend your judgement until you do rather than regurgitating what somebody who may have no expertise or informed idea about that which they are talking about.

I wrote this for my email signature recently:

As we see today, when the people loath knowledge and facts and castigate intellectuals, while completely embracing conspiracy theories and other fictions, that is paving the way for a totalitarian government. A dictator, while knowing the facts, relies on false information and gullibility to rule. Propaganda is then facilitated by the incredulous anti-intellectual and diehard believer. Why censor the truth and the facts when the people censor and restrict themselves with nothing more than unsubstantiated, fragmenting beliefs? Democracy cannot prevail in that case

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov

"Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[procon]

7. It's always about the money. nt

[Midnight Writer]

8. I buy Chef Boyardee down at the Walmart for 88 cents a can.

Shit lasts forever, pop top can, no prep, and in a pinch you can eat it cold.

I would bet it is more nutritious than anything Alex Jones or Jim Bakker hawk, and you don't have to worry about enriching these particular con men.

[Bev54]

9. Why hasn't someone put this ass in prison already!

[tulipsandroses]

10. What is ironic is that his depravity contradicts the Fox News, Right wing, Trump Hoax theory

If its a hoax, nothing more than a mere cold, nothing to see here folks - why do you need $3000 doomsday supplies? Gosh, what a confusing time for MAGATS. Don't pay attention, its a hoax or stock up on doomsday supplies because, well, we may doomed.