# Well, Pizzagate is still around

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979 "2020-04-03T17:54:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/21 "2020-04-04T09:53:26Z")

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> [@China\_Guy](#):
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> CT = conspiracy theory

Thank you. My best guess had been Coronavirus Threads.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/22 "2020-04-04T09:55:51Z")

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> [@nelliebly](#):
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> Anti-vaxxers infuriate me, and sunshine is only mildly anti-viral. But where did you get the idea going outside is dangerous?? Going for a walk is fine. In fact, it’s good for you. Just make sure you give everyone else a very wide berth. If you’re too nervous to do that, you can still walk around your backyard.

I like being outside, what I was paraphrasing was something from the anti-vaxxers.

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**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/23 "2020-04-04T16:19:49Z")

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> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#):
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> Yikes,
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> I found a site to cite:
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> Yikes!  
> [Here.](https://newswithviews.com/)

Yikes is right!

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/24 "2020-04-04T17:04:00Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Because of my time zone, I was asleep when it was explained what CT means, and by the time I woke up, it was assumed everybody knew. Can somebody fill me in?

It must have been a very long nap, since CT has been common parlance on this board since the early 2000s. Are there any other abbreviations you would like explained? NATO? OPEC? USA? It’s never too late to start learning!

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/25 "2020-04-04T18:59:20Z")

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> [@larry borgia](#):
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> …are there any other abbreviations you would like explained? NATO? OPEC? USA? It’s never too late to start learning!

or RTFM? PEBKAC? WTF? SNAFU? FUBAR? OMG? ROFLOL?

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/26 "2020-04-05T00:59:24Z")

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USNS hospital ships have pizza kitchens and refrigerated morgues. Mystery solved - all the links are right there.

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**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/27 "2020-04-05T10:29:24Z")

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> [@RioRico](#):
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> USNS hospital ships have pizza kitchens and refrigerated morgues. Mystery solved - all the links are right there.

Ah, now I see it. You have opened my eyes. The dead are being made into pizza. But who is being fed this soylent green pizza?

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/28 "2020-04-05T14:24:37Z")

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> [@Capn\_Carl](#):
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> Ah, now I see it. You have opened my eyes. The dead are being made into pizza. But who is being fed this soylent green pizza?

The Mole Children. Who apparently are literate and have Twitter accounts.:dubious:

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/29 "2020-04-05T14:32:58Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Is that why that guy derailed the train in Los Angeles? What kind of idiot believes this nonsense? **And what kind of asshole makes it up?**

Look around the thread. I’m not the only person here who would consider that a major coup.

> [@garygnu](#):
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> I don’t remember and anything I make up would be more logical than whatever those escaped mental patients cooked up.

Hey! My brother was a weekly escaped mental patient who was also brilliant and logical. It’s just that Thursdays he needed to visit the hobby shop for slot car stuff.

> [@jtur88](#):
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> Because of my time zone, I was asleep when it was explained what CT means, and by the time I woke up, it was assumed everybody knew. Can somebody fill me in?

As I recall, when you joined you were shocked and appalled when I assumed you were a neo-nazi because of the 88 in your username. (The eighth letter of the alphabet is H, 88=HH=Heil Hitler. It was common with the wrong crowd at the time.) Instead you’re a pleasant sort who can be pleasantly naive. That’s pleasantly nice.

> [@Capn\_Carl](#):
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> Ah, now I see it. You have opened my eyes. The dead are being made into pizza. But who is being fed this soylent green pizza?

Unfortunately for me, people in old folks homes.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/30 "2020-04-05T14:38:11Z")

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> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#):
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> Yikes,
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> I found a site to cite:
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> Yikes!  
> [Here.](https://newswithviews.com/)

If [this](https://newswithviews.com/maybe-the-ships-are-for-the-children/) is the article you’re talking about, it says, “Apparently America has a pretty vast underground tunnel system, but not just for some sewer and utility purposes” while the map shows supposed tunnels running hundreds or thousands of miles all over the country. And this map is supposedly dated 1978. Do the people who believe this bullshit have no sense of skepticism? New York City started to build [Water Tunnel No. 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._3) in 1970 and it’s still years from completion. And yet there are supposedly all of these tunnels and bunkers all over the place?

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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/31 "2020-04-05T15:03:54Z")

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Didn’t you know that 5G phone towers are the _real_ cause of coronavirus?

:eek:

[British 5G towers are being set on fire because of coronavirus conspiracy theories](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning-uk-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-link)

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**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/32 "2020-04-05T15:15:18Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Is that why that guy derailed the train in Los Angeles? What kind of idiot believes this nonsense? And what kind of asshole makes it up?

It’s become a religious thing ☹ You “aren’t allowed” to question their beliefs.

I recall that jackass principal who wanted to teach Holocaust denial. When people questioned him angrily, he said it was his beliefs. (Never mind that there are people alive who literally lived through that, or rescued people from that, or committed that!)

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-pizzagate-is-still-around/850979/33 "2020-04-05T15:20:28Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> Didn’t you know that 5G phone towers are the _real_ cause of coronavirus?
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> :eek:
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> [British 5G towers are being set on fire because of coronavirus conspiracy theories](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning-uk-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-link)

Now imagine a viral pandemic with a 20% death rate, and the current, relatively mild outbreaks of looniness multiplied by a factor of 10-20. Or more (the curve might be exponential for all I know).

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