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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,145 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:35 AM May 2020

Anyone else's social media feeds been suddenly inundated by links to this "Plandemic" bullshit?

“Plandemic” is a “documentary” produced by Judy Mikovits, who is not a medical doctor but some disgraced anti-vaxxer whose study was discredited and ever since she’s had this grudge against Dr. Fauci.

I refuse to watch it. From what I gather, though, it seems it claims the virus was created so the vaccine could be pushed on us. I know they claim Dr. Fauci and the WHO are involved; not sure if it brings in Bill Gates and the microchips and the like.

I wouldn’t bring attention to it except it appears the publicity behind it seems to have been rapidly coordinated, in the same way many other things are suddenly promoted via social media and a lot of gullible people are being sucked in to potential deadly consequences.

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hatrack

(59,566 posts)
1. I hear the Internet Research Agency is hiring . . . . busy times . . .
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:41 AM
May 2020

Having a hard time deciding who's worse - Vanilla Isis and their whiny tactical cosplay or Dr. Nuh-UH! and her fellow Natural News alumni.

Freddie

(9,256 posts)
2. A person I thought was pretty reasonable
Thu May 7, 2020, 07:50 AM
May 2020

My hairdresser- I know she’s a Trumpie (single issue abortion voter) but she has the good sense (and likes my $$) enough to not discuss politics with me. She posted it this am. Ugh. Then again, she told me that her husband (sixty-something and overweight) stopped taking his BP meds because they’re made in China. That’s not going to end well.

mitch96

(13,869 posts)
3. Also watch out for the NewsMax "survey" advertised on MSNBC if you think tRump is doing a good job
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:00 AM
May 2020

If you take the survey your inbox gets flooded with pro tRump "talking points" that are geared to change your mind.. The "survey" is just a front to get to people who don't like tRump to read political bullshit.
Prolly the same with the NewsMax emergency radio hawked on CNN. I just see this as a way to get their ideas on Liberal minded tv stations. Sneaky bastards....
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itcfish

(1,828 posts)
5. Many of my FB Friends
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:14 AM
May 2020

Have been posting that video and my son was quoting it to me the other day over dinner. Wow

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
6. And the moon landings were fake!
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:14 AM
May 2020

Sitting home with a high speed internet connection and limited critical thinking skills can lead the weak of mind to believe all sorts of things. What Trump and the Russians understand best about Americans.(oh no! is that a conspiracy theory?)

Croney

(4,656 posts)
7. Yes. My idiot sister posted the video and said,
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:19 AM
May 2020

Watch it quick! Facebook is taking it down!

If only that were true.


muriel_volestrangler

(101,262 posts)
9. White House correspondent of OAN, in which Don Trump Jr. is investing, pushed the Fauci claim
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:52 AM
May 2020
On March 14 and 15, pro-Trump cable news network OAN aired a coronavirus special called Exposing China's Coronavirus: The Fears, The Lies and The Unknown. During that program, the network’s chief White House correspondent, Chanel Rion, suggested that the novel coronavirus responsible for the current pandemic may have originated in a North Carolina laboratory.

As support, Rion cited Greg Rubini, whom she described in the special as “a citizen investigator and monitored source amongst a certain set in the D.C. intelligence community.”
...
Rubini has said that the novel coronavirus “was GENETICALLY ENGINEERED as a Bio-Weapon at the Univ. of North Carolina BSL-3 Lab.” He has also said that it was spread from North Carolina to China, Italy, and elsewhere in the United States by the “Deep State” in a plot “to destroy the Trump economy.” In addition, Rubini suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the well-respected head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, personally funded the production of the virus, even calling him “Little Tony Fauci.”
...
The first hints of just how deranged that this special would be showed up in the second segment, which was, amazingly, geared toward attacking South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The segment featured a panel including two former top Trump officials: acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz. The panel also included columnist and frequent Fox guest Gordon Chang and former South Korean official Cho Tae-yong. The panelists attacked Moon’s response to the coronavirus epidemic, with Fleitz even saying that the South Korean president showed “incompetence and naivete” because he has downplayed threats coming from China and North Korea. (South Korea’s response to coronavirus has been widely considered a success, thanks largely to its aggressive testing regime, an area in which the U.S. has failed.)

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
10. One of my tenants sent me a link to a plandemic video
Thu May 7, 2020, 09:41 AM
May 2020

I briefly tried to explain to him why the video was wrong, then decided I wasn't up for arguing because I don't care what he thinks.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
11. I don't do any social media unless we count DU. I find out all I want to know about Facebook
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:26 AM
May 2020

and Twitter right here on DU and that's not bad. It's good to know about the bots and this "Plandemic" crap. So thanks for the info...

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
12. No, because DU is the closest thing I have to a social media feed.
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:36 AM
May 2020

Sounds like some kooky b.s. based on your description of it though. These vaccines are not huge money makers. I can't see destroying a good economy just to sell some vaccines. Sounds dumb. Makes no sense.

jeffreyi

(1,938 posts)
16. Yeah, rec the link from
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:10 PM
May 2020

A friend's email. I did not watch the video. Instead, looked up the kook. She is a regular piece of work. An exchange with email friends ensued. Some of them are not unaffected by this stuff. The toxic bs everywhere is really overwhelming.

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