How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon.
At a now notorious Palm Beach County Commissioners meeting about mask mandates in June, Cristina Gomez drew national attention when she railed against a laundry list of conspiracy theories common on Facebook: 5G towers, Bill Gates, pedophiles."Citizens' arrests are already happening," she said, because"we the people are waking up," a frequent catchphrase for QAnon followers.
When a friend told her to look up QAnon, she said she had just finished a ten-part YouTube series about it. “It had me in tears the whole thing," she wrote. In a QAnon world, where those enforcing mask mandates are perceived as part of a movement that includes Satanic child sacrifices, that good-versus-evil narrative can provide a strange sort of comfort. Doing the opposite of public health advice can give conspiracy theorists a sense of control.In the days after her speech at the Palm Beach County Commissioners meeting, Gomez basked in her newfound celebrity online.
DiResta said that the point of these outbursts can be for attention, money, or both, but ultimately"they're performing for the audience at home," not the people at the supermarket or the town meeting. The employee in the video, Liz Chavez, posted a separate video of the exchange recorded by her coworker on her TikTok account with a caption:"This is what it's like to be an essential worker."
Sometimes after speaking to a customer about wearing a mask, Chavez said, her coworkers sound like they're going to cry.
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