{"id":1488,"date":"2020-06-23T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:43:41","slug":"plandemic-or-scamdemic-local-conspiracy-theorists-at-odds-over-what-to-call-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Plandemic or Scamdemic local conspiracy theorists at odds over what to call COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1489\" width=\"377\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture-1024x616.png 1024w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture-768x462.png 768w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture-498x300.png 498w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.png 1153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Windsor, ON&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; A rift has occurred in a local Facebook conspiracy theory group with one side labeling the COVID-19 pandemic a \u2018Plandemic\u2019 and the other side preferring to call it a \u2018Scamdemic\u2019.&nbsp; \u201cIt is clearly a Scamdemic\u201d said Graham Jones the group\u2019s Facebook administrator on a Zoom chat on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Jones explained further \u201cIt is a scam. Anyone with a half-a-brain can see this.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is all about money.&nbsp;&nbsp; The pharmaceutical industry is the major player behind this.&nbsp; They want to sell a vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp; And don\u2019t forget the toilet paper companies.&nbsp;&nbsp; Are you telling me that the Charmin corporation didn\u2019t have something to gain by assisting in the creation of all of this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a contrasting opinion George Peterson weighed in on behalf of the Plandemic name \u201cYou have to call it a Plandemic.\u00a0 It was a plan to keep Trump from getting re-elected or it was plan to put tracking devices in all of us or it was a plan to launch a new biological weapon.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure exactly which plan it is but it was definitely planned.\u00a0 Now that I think about it maybe it was Graham.\u00a0 He told me he got a flu shot last year.  I hear flu shot and I think deep-state conspirator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Peterson was clear about his position when asked if either group could reach a consensus on what to call the pandemic \u201cNo way!&nbsp; Graham and his group can pile in a car and drive off the edge of the flat earth for all I care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; A rift has occurred in a local Facebook conspiracy theory group with one side labeling the COVID-19 pandemic a \u2018Plandemic\u2019 and the other side preferring to call it a \u2018Scamdemic\u2019.&nbsp; \u201cIt is clearly a Scamdemic\u201d said Graham &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news","tag-whatsupwindsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}