"then there’s Catherine Austin Fitts, who has served as an assistant secretary of housing and urban development for President George H.W. Bush, appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars multiple times, and written for Robert F. Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense. While the name Children’s Health Defense may sound like an organization that makes missile warning systems for children, Maanvi Singh for The Guardian describes it as “a group that baselessly ties chronic childhood conditions to a number of factors including vaccines.” In the video, Fitts alluded to a “committee that runs the world” that she called “Mr. Global.” This is a bit different from the "Mr. Vain" that the Culture Beat referred to in its 1993 dance song. According to Fitts, “Mr. Global” is utilizing the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to grab further control of you and others around everyone, possibly by injecting microchips via the Covid-19 vaccines. Those Covid-19 vaccines will “modify your DNA and for all we know make you infertile,” as well, without really offering any evidence supporting these claims. Yep, that’s what she said. Oh, and, by the way, Fitts claimed that “massive voter fraud” occurred during the 2020 Presidential Election. With many different real scientists and public health experts around the world, this is the crew that the movie has collected?
copies of the video keep re-appearing like crabs, not the delicious for dinner kind but the sexually transmitted kind. The Media Matters for America website describes how far “Planet Lockdown” has gone. There has been multiple reuploads on YouTube and Vimeo, hashtags on TikTok like #PlanetLockdown” and #catherineaustinfitts,” and translations of the video into other languages such as German, Italian, Polish, Swedish, and Russian. Looks like reuploads of the video may have ads, suggesting that YouTube may have made ka-ching, money from the video. There has been a GoFundMe effort to support the video as well. Infowars has praised the video too, in case you regularly use the Infowars website to determine what to watch and how to go about your daily lives. Alex Jones, the founder of right-wing media group Infowars, addresses a crowd of pro-Trump .
.. [+] Getty Images Folks, this doesn’t sound like your typical organic sharing of a video like when that video of an attorney who couldn’t remove a kitten filter on Zoom went viral. No, this more like a concerted effort to get “Planet Lockdown” and its theories spread. ...
And while a kitten filter may not have too many bad consequences, spreading conspiracy theories about the pandemic can have many different dire effects. Many people have been suffering and dying from the SARS-CoV2. Response to the pandemic from political leaders like the Trump Administration ranged from inadequate to really inadequate. Inability to contain the virus has lead to widespread harm, not just medically but socially and economically. Conspiracy theories can be ways of distracting from the failures of political leaders, selling alternative products, or pushing for particular agendas such as fully opening businesses before its safe to do so. Conspiracy theory film can help plant alternative ideas in your head without really providing facts or evidence. Maybe instead of “Planet” or “Plandemic” a more appropriate name would be “Plant.”
