Florida politicians indulge conspiracy theorists with nonsense 'chemtrails' bill
There’s a wing of conspiracy theorists who imagine that “they” are intentionally trying to poison parts of the country by trailing clouds of toxic substances from aircraft.
And to make this even more nutty, the people sounding the alarm are being organized by Marla Maples, a former wife of President Donald Trump.
One of the leading voices of disinformation on chemtrails is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the just confirmed U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“We are going to stop these crimes,” Kennedy wrote about chemtrails last August.
This disinformation campaign is being orchestrated, in part, by the Global Wellness Forum, a group co-founded by Maples, Trump’s lone America-First wife choice. The group is also helping to spread fear about live-saving vaccinations.
Global Wellness Forum members flooded Florida lawmakers with more than 18,000 emails to do something about the imaginary “chemtrails” poisoning the state.
And that has produced a piece of legislation for the upcoming session that takes this nonsense to new levels.
The bill, without addressing the kind of money and staffing increases this new chemtrail goose chase would entail, involves three state agencies to handle “the concerns” of the conspiracy theorists.
Here’s how it would work: Florida Man looks up, sees contrail, then calls the hotline that connects to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
“The dern gub’mint is trying to poison me again!” the caller might say.
That scrambles the DEP to alert the Florida Department of Health to race to the scene to do samples of the air quality under the path of the contrail.
And that puts the Florida Department of Emergency Services on notice to “step in to mitigate,” as Garcia put it.
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