Good grief.

Steve Black, a 72-year-old from Spokane, was directing cars to the parking lot from the back of a utility vehicle. Saturday’s event was the first time he had been out of the house for about a year after COVID-19 left him with some challenging health issues, he said. He surmised COVID-19 was a “political thing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they sprayed it out of the air.”

Asked to clarify, he said “chem trails,” a debunked suggestion that condensation trails from aircraft is actually a government ploy to crop-dust citizens with some nefarious substance.

“I’m a conspiracy theorist,” he said. “The way it spread, you know, that’d be the perfect way to do it.”

‘Hard pill to swallow’: Red Pill Festival prescribes Christian conservatism and conspiracies | Independent Record

That article is kind of a horror show. It centers on this guy.