One of the fun things about conspiracy theories isn’t so much the ideas themselves but the left’s conspiracy theories, ‘conspiracy theory.’ They label everything like that now. Even something as benign as yoga can be a breeding ground for right-wing extremists.
And not just yoga. Meditation, wellness, gym and personal trainers, and fitness in general, possibly even foodies and nutritionists, if they happen to think the wrong thoughts. It is all a bubbling wellspring for Qanon anti-vaxxers. That’s the conclusion of beta-male Guardian scribbler James Ball. People who think the wrong things or Gasp! keep their minds open to the possibility that the government is full of sh!t at least once in a while … have to be fascists.
I didn’t look, but does JB have any on-ramp-content to the false civility narrative circa 2020? The one where we can all get along – the kumbayah BS the American left sold to get that bag of China-bribed bones doing business as Joe Biden behind the Resolute Desk or a near enough facsimile? A civility narrative sold by a group that had been as uncivil and impossible to get along with every day of the previous president’s tenure – to him and anyone who may have voted the guy into an election they said was stolen? I bet he does. He was probably one of many uncivil civility hacks pontificating from the UK, but let’s not derail our train of thought.
Personal trainers, people whose life work is health and fitness, might be unvaccinated and oppose mandatory covid vaccination. The not-so-secret term for them, regardless of any other injections they’ve received, is an anti-vaxxer. Anti-vaxxers don’t think covid is real, which is silly. We all know it was created in a lab in Wuhan, China, where the pesky thing snuck out in some janitor’s leftover bat-sushi to infect the world, but only after they had to admit it. Before that, this was also a conspiracy (in theory). One with so much kick that the entire global public health Matrix abandoned hundreds of years of protocol by refusing to call it the Wuhan Flu. It was COVID. SARS CoV2, which, after much hand-wringing and the release of some documents showing it WAS released from a lab in Wuhan, China (that the same people yelling conspiracy didn’t want public), became SARS CoV2-WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology).
A result of a Chinese bio-weapons program and illegal gain of function research off-shored and funded by Tony ‘The Tiger’ Fauci and the NIH – another conspiracy (in theory) that turned out to be true. One of many, as it turns out, but stop that, you conspiracy theorist theorist. Jay Ball has first-hand stories for us from victims of anti-maskers (masks still don’t against viruses), anti-lockdowns (also debunked as useless and likely to have made matters worse), as well as other policy responses that time and actual science have revealed as flawed, dangerous, or even deadly. It’s as if J-Ball is trapped in a Summer of Love time warp where the only safe spaces for maskless communal activity are looting and arson by anti-semitic black race fascists and communists.
In theory.
To J-Ball, Qanon is a pandemic, and the fitness movement in many, if not all, of its manifestations, has had its watering holes poisoned. Not that this should be a problem – if true. No one is making you do yoga, train with groups or instructors. No one has to hire a chef or nutritionist to feed them (OMG, is that why the Obamas Chef was Drowned off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard?).
That’s the thing about the people you are calling conspirators. They don’t care if you sprinkle mRNA on your Kashi Whole Wheat Biscuit Cinnamon Harvest Cereal or put two drops in each eye before bed. Wear a mask or don’t—distance or don’t. They mostly want to be left alone to their lives and opinions and whatever consequences come of them, even if fitness means fit-n-ess whole meat-lovers pizza in their mouth.
But?
Whiney left-wing journalists, much like their audience and the politicians they keep electing, don’t live that way. The notion of civility hinges on you agreeing with them, and only by refusing to do so is there strife and division. Your repeated failure to get in line drives the totalitarian backlash against bodily autonomy and free speech. If you’d just think and talk like them, they wouldn’t have to embrace the hyperbolic use of excessive government force to shut you up.
After all, everything you say is just a conspiracy, including the government’s abuse of power to silence dissent or liberal consent to it.
They’re just trying to protect mob rule Democracy, and enough with the conspiracy theories already.
