How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon

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How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon.

At a now notorious Palm Beach County Commissioners meeting about mask mandates in June, Cristina Gomez drew national attention when she railed against a laundry list of conspiracy theories common on Facebook: 5G towers, Bill Gates, pedophiles."Citizens' arrests are already happening," she said, because"we the people are waking up," a frequent catchphrase for QAnon followers.

When a friend told her to look up QAnon, she said she had just finished a ten-part YouTube series about it. “It had me in tears the whole thing," she wrote. In a QAnon world, where those enforcing mask mandates are perceived as part of a movement that includes Satanic child sacrifices, that good-versus-evil narrative can provide a strange sort of comfort. Doing the opposite of public health advice can give conspiracy theorists a sense of control.In the days after her speech at the Palm Beach County Commissioners meeting, Gomez basked in her newfound celebrity online.

DiResta said that the point of these outbursts can be for attention, money, or both, but ultimately"they're performing for the audience at home," not the people at the supermarket or the town meeting. The employee in the video, Liz Chavez, posted a separate video of the exchange recorded by her coworker on her TikTok account with a caption:"This is what it's like to be an essential worker."

Sometimes after speaking to a customer about wearing a mask, Chavez said, her coworkers sound like they're going to cry.

 

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Did somebody say QAnon LMAO

We shall see...

Some people thrive on conspiracy theories. They seem to ignore rational thinking.

I guarantee you QAnon is full of pedophiles who use its supposed crusade against child sex rings to safely meet each other. No sane person would have so much disgusting borderline pedophile crap to tweet on support of QAnon unless they were already a pedophile.

By all means go to qmap dot pub and read the Q drops yourself. You'll note that among the more than 4000 posts from Q not a single one asks people to do anything apart from critical thinking, research and sharing factual information to help friends and family see through MSM lies

QAnon is a domestic terrorist group.

Unchecked & untreated tumors always run the risk of metastasis. Now we may never be completely free from this 4chan hoax brigade that’s also responsible for the flat earthers & 5G Covid linkers.

Q anon isn’t a real thing. Anything conservative will be a q anon conspiracy in a few months. That’s how this works.

Stop fraudulent information now and hold social media accountable and their CEOs

QAnon is no different than Rachel Maddow she is just as a conspiracy theorist but only for the left!! Let’s not take away anyone’s ideas or take away everyone’s. You don’t have to read or listen if you don’t want👌

joncoopertweets Cult of the Dumb

Renee DiResta is a big pharma paid activist who does her own little stunts for attention.

All you have to do is show the one Q post out of thousands and thousands that is proven wrong and it all ends.

you getting scared because you are going down also BAAAAHHHHH BYYYYEEEE!!!!!!!

Pretty soon, the MSM won’t be able to lie anymore. Imagine that.

joncoopertweets This is the modern day GOP.

🤪it’s coming.

Hmm I've seen all this stuff look what I've found. I don't see the harm so far.. i see the media being bullies. But they do that all the time. Wanting peace and truth .. i kinda want that,pedophilia is bad Question everything Critically think Vet all sources Ask questions

joncoopertweets It is the fecal remnants of the Tea Party

So Qanon is more than some pedophilia obsessed group from 4chan these days. Yet they would still blame people for crimes without due process or putting their evidence through real critical thinking. Like a cult, recruit the most lost and desperate.

joncoopertweets GOP is now QAnon

joncoopertweets So, the really stupid people? 🙄

Ppl are saying all the members are pedophiles and involved in child sex ring

Fruitcake Central.

QAnons are scaring the shit out of you lol

🖕QAnon

Believing in conspiracy gives stupid people a chance to “know more that anyone here!”

The cult members will read this and wonder if it’s a conspiracy

And so what business is it of yours if people chose to believe in QAnon or alternative health. You sold the Russia conspiracy for years to the public in an effort to smear the President. You spent all your trust capital. Now NBC News is full of conspiracy theory Fake News.

they have no logic. they have no science. they have no intelligent discourse. conspiracy is all any magat can hang their hats on.

Propaganda fake media NBC quit spreading your lies

Bunch of weirdos with nothing but issues and problems.

Conspiracies are like scientists hypothesizes. A what if, who done it, what about etc. Question everything do research if it sounds wack. Quit relying on others for info. Get off yer lazy arse, do something productive for once in yer life.

An educated population would not be gullible to Q.

Up next: How the news media helped dems scare the fuck out of everyone. By wielding the pandemic to stop the economy just to hurt a sitting president. Which mostly only hurt the hard working people.

Are you guys smoking crack?

Q must be really getting to people!! tee hee

Tea Party, kkk, white supremacist, nazis QAnon they just change their name they are all the same.

These Qers have been waiting for this moment. POTUS is right in their wheelhouse. They’re idiots and still I feel sorry for them. What a shitty world they live in.

Read this recent article. It proves that the lock down approach was completely wrong and unnecessary. Bad scientists and bad politicians hurt a lot of people with the pandemic panic. They need to be held accountable. We did not need to shut down!!

''QANON'' ''MENTAL DELUSIONAL DERANGE INCOMPETENT SYMPATHIZERS NAZI TRAITORS LOVING CONFEDERATE NATIONALIST TRUMP REPUBLICAN PARTY'' ''TRAITORS TO AMERICA'' THEY ARE TREATED HAS SUCH''..

Everything you need to know about 'Q'

Wish I would have bought stock in aluminum foil earlier.

Says a Major Russia Hoaxer....

Stop the Crazy.

I AM NOT ANONYMOUS

Satan still spewing deceit, where he can! MSNBC MSMIsTheEnemyOfThePeople The news you will not speak of is the true injustices that continue for demonic control! Children are being slaughtered and you want to to talk about conspiracy theorem

“That’s a myth being spread only in Washington DC”

You really don't seem to understand what Q stands for and how many people, everyday Americans do understand

You can spot QAnon twitter profiles by their reference to WWG1WGA, which means “where we go one we go all” and by the Q in their user names. You can often spot them by their gibberish about child sex rings since there’s a reason QAnon isn’t called IQanon.

They also fuel breaking up the USPS, when they're done what was once the greatest postal system in the world will be no more.

Enjoy guys and dont forget to like and subscribe

Alternative health communities seem profoundly self limiting. Only issue is isolating them from all other communities. Perhaps we could reserve some scrub land in Oklahoma.

Guess how many QAnon cult members are also members of a church? 🧐

oneunderscore__ Sympathy for her = 0

oneunderscore__ The Lunatic Fringe. Scared angry white people dealing with cognitive dissonance. It would be fun to just sit back, get high, and watch them flail on a tv reality show. Unfortunately, because of social media they are a menace to society.

oneunderscore__ The more people hear of this, the more others will do the same. So thank you. It will become more difficult for you folks to continue to lie. Keep up the great work lol. ripmainstreammedia

oneunderscore__ I started looking into this out of curiosity. Q drops are usually very cryptic, do not share an opinion or place blame. It provides key words encouraging research. My research allows me to come to my own personal opinion.

oneunderscore__ She sounds crazy, but I've heard all the crap about everything and I wear a mask, but I know it doesn't really help and as for the Qanons, they have a lot of real proof that I saw, especially on childmolester and they may be extreme sometimes, but who isnt that is passionate.

oneunderscore__ I never wear a mask when I got out and never had any problems. Some people even take their masks off when they see me without mine. 99.96% survivability rate. 0.0001% mortality rate among younger people. Numbers don’t lie, People do.

oneunderscore__ Special false beliefs that injure and kill are not protected by the Constitution. Fraud and satire are not the same. No different than the fake 'Christian' racists folk. 'What! preach, and kidnap men? Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor' 😷

oneunderscore__ Great article. I’ve seen this in person. It’s frightening.

oneunderscore__ Great...more far right, conspiracy theory, racist, Trumpsucking nut cases to join the republican party. 🤢🤮🤢

oneunderscore__ Only in America, the land of the paranoid, do you have conspiracy theory TV that prays on the fears of the gulable and twists science and advice to match their agenda without check.

oneunderscore__ Scary uncomfortable truths aren’t always “conspiracy theories”. Do your own research.

oneunderscore__ Now do ANTIFA & BLM destruction, destabilization & deaths. Point to 1 single RIOT or DESTRUCTION OF BUILDING & SHOOTINGS BY QAnon. Ur using ur platform to fight QAnon on behalf of ur masters DNC. U target anyone standing in way of Dem agenda. Everyone knows ur FAKE NEWS

oneunderscore__ Last time I checked it was BLM and antifa that has rode and fueled this pandemic along with dems an these mainstream media organizations. Since March. NBC news is trash 🗑 the trump admin is not anti-mask. lol take me to all of your news media masters CNN,ABC,CBS,MSNBC ect 🤣🤷‍♂️

oneunderscore__ FREEDOM OF THOUGHT WILL NOT ONLY SAVE YOU, BUT IT WILL SAVE THE WORLD. THE DAYS OF FAKE NEWS [CONTROL OF NARRATIVE] [BRAINWASHING] ARE OVER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. THE GREAT AWAKENING.

oneunderscore__ It's beyond, you ever watch that 'Blair's Witch Project' , sort of complete 'HOGSWASHES' false 'OUCH_CABBIBLE' not cool.. this is news?

oneunderscore__ Trump's USA is sunk in utter chaos and QAnon is only the natural progression of said chaos.

oneunderscore__ These are the new losers

oneunderscore__ QAnon is a surprisingly popular hoax based on the cryptic posts of an individual or group purporting to possess inside knowledge of the Trump administration's secret fight against an evil global cabal.

oneunderscore__ Who is QAnon? I only here tRump and news mention them. Are they real cause clown in oval office makes sh*t up.

oneunderscore__ This is Q. NBC is the virus.

oneunderscore__ CCP LIED•PEOPLE DIed 229 Days Covid19=CCPvirus=Chinese Communist Party virus KamalaHarris VP JoeBiden realDonaldTrump

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oneunderscore__ QANON - Scourge of the Stupid

oneunderscore__ At least they gather by they tens of thousands and riot.

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oneunderscore__ Urban terrorists.

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oneunderscore__ if these qanon followers are so concerned about pediphilia they should volunteer their time at kids at risk

oneunderscore__ stop talking about them

oneunderscore__ QAnon & KKK will be mainstream if Trump gets another term

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oneunderscore__ Can't be any crazier than astrology.

oneunderscore__ Well Dr Fauci was anti mask when it really mattered most. 60 Minutes report here.

oneunderscore__ news of heaven

Religions the cause of all these conspiracy nuts. Once you can convince an otherwise civilized & intelligent human being to believe a magical God made them with his mind & lives in the clouds waiting for them to die, you pretty much open the door for them to believe in anything!

...and Republicans.

You can spot QAnon twitter profiles by their reference to WWG1WGA, which means “where we go one we go all” and by the Q in their user names. You can often spot them by their gibberish about child sex rings since there’s a reason QAnon isn’t called IQanon.

oneunderscore__ Hypocrites! The MSM haven't politicized the pandemic?

oneunderscore__ Who gives these clowns a platform?

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oneunderscore__ NBC does not want you to believe that powerful global elites fly on private jets from all over the world to party with and traffic in underage girls at islands owned by mysteriously wealthy guys who were convicted of grooming and raping underage girls. Flight logs don't lie. FFS

nadabakos oneunderscore__ Conspiracy theorists have been decrying for about 3 decades now that the super rich secret society groups like The BilderbergGroup want to cull the worlds population by 80%,the Christ Guidestones in Georgia call for this. A pandemic was the method so not wonder Q is going bonkers

oneunderscore__ Q Anon is trying to be a replacement for Ku Klux Klan members that disappearing from our gov the Ku Klux Klan came in under the cover of sheets to hide who they were becuz they were N the government now they're dying off cuz they're getting too old and now conspirators R here

NBCNews Sad to see these folks permanently sacrifice their credibility due to personal frustration. Hopefully at least they have each other.

NBCNews It can't be psychologically healthy to harbor that much distrust and forego all sense of civic responsibility, character, and integrity. Automatically you become un-credible as a person. Why would you sacrifice that.?

NBCNews QAnon = Death Cult. That must be weird. It can't be emotionally healthy to harbor that much distrust. Eventually they will turn on themselves as all death cults do. Probably not as many deaths as they have caused from COVID-19.

NBCNews Ted Cruz said that NBC is the most corrupt of all and they don’t care that people know it.

NBCNews The “Anti-Mask” movement was started by the WHO and Fauci. Get your facts straight!

NBCNews This explains a lot.

NBCNews Q did not fuel anti masking.

NBCNews A large portion of the population hasn’t trusted the gov for a long time. Not just QAnon

NBCNews Why do you write about it like it's a legit group? These are psychiatric patients who are fueling each other's mental decline. Very sad.

NBCNews Invest in tin foil, the outlook looks good.

NBCNews QAnon bad, censoring speech and supporting race rioting good. According to MSM and Dems.

NBCNews Exposing mental illness and poor education

NBCNews They're going to be More'Covid19' Deaths!!!!! Conspiracy On!!!!!

NBCNews Free speech+ a broken education system= QAnon

NBCNews

Yes masks are awesome

People are anti-mask , “viral” literally has nothing to do with it.

Report an actual story CannonHinnant

Keep giving us publicity.

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