Wow. So it wasn’t even there for any good reason? What a total tragedy.
I saw a comparison that caught my eye because it is ingrained in a lot of elderly folks in my community. In 1947, 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Texas City, Texas (about a 15 minute drive for me), and killed nearly 600 people.
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Damnit Joe don’t give them any ideas!
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A friend of mine (whose name I withhold) has achieved some visibility in debunking crazy conspiracy theories. As a joke, I made up a conspiracy theory involving coronavirus, his favorite research organism, Bill Gates (via a Microsoft program feature), and George Soros. He thought it was funny … but begged me not to post it anywhere.
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And you plan to ignore his advice and post in here momentarily? Or so I hope… 
Now I feel the temptation to plant a fake conspiracy theory, and document how it spreads across the internet.
I won’t be surprised if most actual conspiracy theories floating around started out this way.
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Worst part of this is the near-certainty we can have that you revealing it’s origin and documenting it’s spread would have zero effect on it’s coming adherents who would all continue to believe, and construct a new conspiracy theory to explain your revelation as the work of “the adversary”. Yes, you’d become the “devil” in the new religion you’d have created.
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I had a couple of good ideas for fake anti-Vaxx conspiracy theories today, but I dare not share them because someone would believe it.
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