This time around, the grifters are telling their suckers that Hillary Clinton and the round-earthers have cooked up a diabolical pathogen called “Disease X” to rid the planet of “excess population,” “install a corporate world government,” and “enslave humanity.” If you don’t want your body to get covered in festering boils and carbuncles the size of chicken eggs, you need to buy a “medical contagion kit” with vials of life-saving ivermectin manufactured right here in God’s most favorite country in the whole universe.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Oh Jesus is this what some guy in my extended social circle was trying to tell me about?

    I’ve gotten pretty good at playing dumb and diverting the conversation away towards something tangentially related and based in reality, but it’s getting hard man.

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    9 months ago

    Whenever I see a story like this I always wonder why I’m not fleecing maga. It’s mostly a question of infrastructure and laziness, I guess.

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    9 months ago

    Well, I guess they had to come up with something to explain the fallout from COVID since they simultaneously claim that either (a) it’s not real or (b) it’s just a mild flu.

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    9 months ago

    Man, Elon Musk gonna be so pissed they stole his ‘X’. Also, I doubt any of these people are smart enough to know what a carbuncle is.

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    9 months ago

    Recently ‘Disease X’ was a topic of discussion on a forum in Dubai (?). That was a template name for any disease that’d need excessive measures to adapt for it, like a covid pandemic. No wonder headless chikens run with it like it means some exact conspirological pathogen.