The proximal origin of covid conspiracies

Finally, covid truthers have a safe space to go online.

Last week’s post ended with an assertion:

When we put people in charge who spout conspiracy theories, sooner or later they’re going govern via conspiracy theory.

Thanks to an onslaught of profoundly uninteresting technical difficulties, this week’s planned post has been bumped to next week. But I don’t want to leave you with nothing, so allow me, if you w…