decisions for my health and my family s health, but to advise clients. melissa rein lively is well versed in appearances - she runs a small public relations firm catering to luxury and lifestyle. but her business was upended when the pandemic devastated arizona s hospitality industry. how did the pandemic start to affect you personally? i honestly didn t know what to do with myself. it was just this dead zone of time where i just had nothing to do other than panic. melissa had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was prone to extreme anxiety. and like many of us, she was faced with an information overload. my issue with dr. fauci right out the gate was initially he had said no masks are necessary, then he dialed it back and said masks are necessary. i think that the juxtaposition
riff that resist that it had in my relationship with my husband. finally things got so heated here that he was like either you cut this qanon out or we re done. i said fine. i ll go stay in a hotel i was filled with rage. i was thinking about everything i had learned about qanon, it s like they re doing this to us. when i saw the maps, i just lost its. [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. i don t have the [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. the target video was just one of several post by melissa. in them, she bragged about connections to q, loyalty to donald trump, and used a torrent of racist language. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. elissa lost clients, friends,
literally a medieval conspiracy theory. it is an anti-semitic idea that juice were meeting late at night to slaughter christian children and use their blood in rituals, but it spread beyond that. you can see elements of it in qanon, which claims that evil doers are meeting in secret to abuse children. the agent lie has been weapon niced again and again throughout global history but still didn t turn elissa. even though there is a lot of anti-semitism that goes along with what qanon is about, that still didn t dissuade you? i picked and choosed what i ascribe to and the rest of it, i was like i don t like that, i m going to ignore that. and the more detached from reality i got, the more of a