I recently came across a tweet from a right-wing blogger I hadn’t heard from in a while, who I’d always taken to be a pretty sharp guy. As it turns out, he’s in a state of coronavirus hysteria, and is lashing out against anyone who doesn’t “believe” in the virus.
This person went so far as to post pictures of people who have died and claim that people who don’t believe the media on this think that no one is actually dying…!
Internet right-wingers lashing out at “deniers” as they scream about millions of dead is not something I ever expected to see, but there it is.
I’ve removed his name because I’m not trying to “put him on blast.” I actually feel for these people who are caught in this state of hysteria, as it is a legitimate psychological condition. Even though right-wingers tend to say they don’t believe the media, the media still has power over most people on a subconscious level, so they are able to get swept up in this hysteria. Their subconscious minds are taking over, in a panic situation, and the subconscious mind has no ability to parse falsehood.
The fact that he is claiming that people dying means that the virus is everything the media says it is demonstrates that he is not in anything close to a stable mental condition. This is more or less the exact same thing as when you tell someone you don’t believe in Nazi gas chambers and they say “I’ve seen a tattoo!”
Along with “denier,” the other term that internet right-wingers who support the hoax are using is “minimizer.”
This is also pulled directly from Holocaust confirmers. Jewish “Holocaust survivor” and Berkeley Professor Coby Lubliner has written that a “minimizer” is a “subspecies of denialist.” But, okay. Whatever. I’m sure they’re not conscious of how bad it looks for people who obsess over Holocaust revisionism to be borrowing all this language. It’s just part of the hysteria.
Insofar as it goes, I am probably the most prominent “denier” or “minimizer” on the right-wing internet, so I can speak to what exactly it is that Coronacaust deniers believe with some authority.
But firstly, I should note that attempting to frame this as fringe, or a conspiracy theory, especially this late in the game, is either Jewish-level dishonesty or a result of hysteria. The positions I’m going to lay out here are shared by one of the most prominent medical authorities in the country, Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University.
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