Yeah. It’s “a thing.”
All the truly outlandish Flat Earth, 5G, chem trails nut bar chatter has been used to dilute and discredit emergent discoveries about the mRNA shots. Pro mRNA evangelists have used these truly lunatic ideas like a f’n anvil to beat the actual truth out of vax hesitancy, out of vax injury, out of vax inefficacy, and other actually serious topics revolving around COVID and treatments for it.
I’ve bludgeoned people verbally for condemning mRNA and 5G in the same breath, making the point that any invalidity on the one topic will serve to damn the other, but it does little or no good. Such raving, witless, bubble-brained lickspittles MUST, as a matter of psychological necessity, lump all their to-be-reviled evils together into a single wad of (so they think) mutually reinforcing sins. The supposition, here, is that the whole lot is more easily carted off to Hell as a single load.
Never calculated is the real probability that their crock of allegedly mutual bogeymen contains one or more that hail not from Hell, but from that fertile field of fiction: overnight AM talk radio, where topics as variant as chem trails, chemotherapy, and Chupacabra meld into an indifferentiable tapestry of bug-eyed paranoia.
Keeping topics separate as a matter of rendering them immune from any criticisms of which their peers may be susceptible is a too-foreign notion on the political right, a truly critical chink in our political armor; like an innocuous thermal exhaust port running straight through all the multiple layers of our defenses straight to our Main Reactor.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?