[vkou]

Nobody needs to caricature the insane beliefs surrounding COVID (or flat earth), people holding them are doing a good enough job of that themselves.

I do have a few favorites. "COVID tests give you COVID, so I won't go get tested" is certainly up there. I can't say I give two figs about your opinion on the Earth's topology, but this one is a public health problem, that's crippling hospitals around the country.

[exporectomy]

So it didn't happen?

[robbedpeter]

Exactly - like the "Oklahoma horse paste overdoses overwhelming emergency rooms so gunshot victims can't get tratment" the stories validate all the caricatured biases against middle America as a bunch of ignorant redneck yokels. None of the story was true, but people leapt on it because it resonates in that echo chamber.