Jabbing the Unjabbable (or, for the less polite, Pricking the Pricks)
A guest slot by Stocky I saw a friend recently who is an enthusiast of myriad butt-clenching conspiracy theories. “My intention was to calmly, cleverly and succinctly knock down each piece of nonsense one-by-one and emerge victorious, chest swelled and buttocks relaxed. My plan quickly got caught up in the weeds.” He quickly got into his patter: Covid is no worse than flu; the death figures are deliberately inflated; long-Covid is largely made up; the pandemic is a fiction created by…