“As many of us have noticed from the start, many of the covid zealots also push climate crisis shit,” a redditor wrote Wednesday on r/CoronavirusCirclejerk, criticizing people who recommended masking up until the air has cleared. Coincidence? No such thing to the paranoid cranks among us. And, just as in the early days of the pandemic, officials have warned people to stay home if possible. N95s - hmm, where have we heard about those? Oh, right, we were supposed to wear them to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. And N95 face masks - originally designed for people working in proximity to noxious particulate matter - are helpful safeguards for those who need to venture out into the choking haze. Shawn Mendes Is Heartbroken - and Anxious About Climate Change - on 'What the Hell Are We Dying For?'Īs anyone with lungs in an affected area can already tell you, smoke from the fires poses an obvious health risk. “As this thing unwinds, look for wildfires to increase exponentially as the cabal burns everything down.” “Antifa pyromaniacs are getting started early this year,” one user commented as the fires started to burn in May, in a typical post on the QAnon forum Great Awakening. Anything can be blamed on those who would oppose militant far-right ideology, so may as well try it.
Probably the laziest misinformation collected here holds that antifascists are setting the fires. Any helicopter with this equipment needs to be destroyed and the pilot hung.” The “Antifa Arsonist” Theory “That is Terrorism on our own soil,” insisted one. Normies replying to the post tried to offer a reality check, that the video actually depicted a fire-fighting drone engaged in “back burning” - “common practice to control/manage forest fires.” (For more on the reality of fighting fire with fire read here.)īut other conspiratorial commenters were undeterred. “Looks like they opted for a drone with a flamethrower instead.” “It seems Canada isn’t sophisticated enough to use Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs),” Peters wrote. On June 6, Peters posted a new video, of what looks like a remote-controlled helicopter drizzling napalm on a forest. Peters used his Telegram account on June 5 to blame the wildfires on government weaponry.Ĭonsistency is the hobgoblin of little conspiracy theorists, but big players like Peters are ever eager to embrace the newest insanity. Why buy into lightning strikes when you can believe in “directed energy weapons?” Stew Peters is a far-right media host and conspiracy monger, infamous for his unhinged film claiming Covid-19 is caused by synthetic snake venom. So what really caused those fires? Was it space lasers? Antifa arsonists? The deep-state cabal? Aliens?!īelow we break down the latest FUBAR theories about why Canadian forests are ablaze, Americans are hunkered down in their houses, and the smoke has blotted out the sun.
Indeed, the tinfoil-hat brigade has already ginned up myriad conspiracy theories to cast this disaster, not as an act of God, but part of a nefarious plot - or two, or three. The official explanation for these strange conflagrations - lightning strikes across unusually dry forests, igniting more than 100 out-of-control blazes in Quebec alone - hits many smooth-brained denizens of the internet as a LiTTle. Wildfire smoke from Canada is now blanketing the East Coast, creating some of the worst air quality in the world.
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