The Right-Wing Internet Is Full Of Wild Theories About A Text Message From FEMA
Why fear an automated text message? The reasons are mind-bendingly ludicrous, but surf long-running waves of disinformation around 5G networks, the COVID vaccines, and a nefarious federal government intent on harming its citizens.
“These tests and exercises or drills, if you prefer, are always preceding of, or simultaneous with, an actual created crisis,” the Hawaii-based pastor J.D. Farag said in a recent sermon, clips of which spread on X and TikTok.
“The crisis is first simulated and then created,” said Farag, who has nearly 300,000 subscribers on his “End Times news and global events” YouTube page, before comparing the impending event to the Sept. 11 attacks and COVID-19.
Jason Shurka, a spirituality influencer with around 170,000 followers each on YouTube and Instagram, warned followers in videos last month that an emergency broadcast, “disguised as a test,” would send a high-frequency signal to devices across the country “with the intention of activating graphene oxide and other nanoparticles that have been inserted into billions of human beings around the world through the obvious mediums,” presumably a reference to the COVID-19 vaccine.
On Truth Social, the Trump-backed social media network, one QAnon influencer noted the emergency test coincided with rumored nuclear evacuation drills in Russia and warned, “You and your body have been continuously assaulted by every poison, bioagent, medication, and criminal warfare device (millimeter, x-rays, and microwaves) conceivable, for your entire lives.”
And on TikTok, one since-removed video included the caption, “Y’all get ready. October 4th their [sic] activating Marburg virus through 5 g signal which they are activating on October 4. This will affect anyone who took the shots.” The accompanying video featured anti-vaccine activist Todd Callender warning that a 5G broadcast would cause “liquid nanoparticles to swell” and release heretofore contained pathogens into the bodies of COVID-19 vaccine recipients, causing “a Marburg epidemic” as well as, really, a race of human zombies. (The Marburg virus is a dangerous hemorrhagic fever virus.)
On Reddit, one user shared what they claimed was a text message from their landlord, notifying tenants that “we intend to enter your apartment and shut off your power” for two hours because of the supposed fire risk to “all our multiple appliances that we furnish for all of the apartments.” The same text message warned tenants of a distinct risk for “the Covid vax’d.”
The news isn’t all bad: At least a few conspiracy-theory-minded webizens see the Wireless Emergency Alerts test as a positive development: One Truth Social user, for example, pointed out that the digits in the military times for the announced start and end to the test, 14:20 and 14:50, added up to 17 ― a supposed reference to Q, the 17th letter in the alphabet and a calling card for the QAnon conspiracy theory.
“PROOF The White Hats Control the 10/4 EAS Test!” the post announced, using a slang term for upstanding patriots.
“According to some, White Hats have full control of communications,” another Truth Social user posted separately. “If anything these vibrations will be healing frequencies so I’m told…… I for one am not taking any measures to hide my phone…..”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-wireless-emergency-alerts-system-test-conspiracy-theories-zombies-5g_n_651c71bfe4b00623d35ea98fOpen linkView original on lemm.ee
while this asinine conspiracy crap is over the top, there is at least one reason to be aware of the EBS test... specifically for people that may be hiding a phone - for many legit reasons, including a domestic violence situation. making sure the phone is completely powered off (and will not alert) for the test may prevent a nasty domestic encounter. that is all.
A bunch of people who snuck phones into live performances, rehabs, and prisons are about to have an interesting day.
What's that ringing nose? It's coming from your ass?
Snape: What is that mysterious ringing noise?
Again, just power the phone off and there is no issue
I bet you a good 50% of people don’t know how to power off an iPhone anymore
It's the same way you turn off anything, by dropping it in the toilet!
what, you guys don't store yours in the toilet tank?
Just the burner.
I’m not going to ask why you thought of this but I want to say you’re a good egg for raising it here.
One love.
The alarm went off on my iPhone work phone, but not my personal Android. I got the pop-up on both and keep them both on silent.
yeah, the likely only surefire way is to not be connected to the cellular network (phone off).
android (and ios, I imagine) have options buried rather deep in settings to ignore alerts, but who knows how consistently well they work or are retained after an update.
You can opt out of some of this stuff.
I know Amber Alerts can be silenced or disabled from Android, maybe you disabled these as well?
I know there's a good intention, but when they go off every driver on the road gets a crazy alert blaring at them, I've often wondered how often those actually help and how many accidents they cause.
They are very helpful. They are only issued when there is a danger to the child and they have a description and license plate of the suspect vehicle. An amber alert indicates a hot pursuit, and what to try on these in that moment is for regular people to have their eyes open.
No, I understand their intended purpose...
I'm doubting their efficacy and curious about how much harm they cause.
Like, if everytime you heard a knock at your door, you'd shoot thru it with a shotgun. You'd 100% hit every burglar that was polite enough to wait by the door. It is effective.
The downside you'd also shoot everyone else that knocks on your door.
In this analogy it's the consequences of every driver on a crowded interstate having the alert go off and quickly fumbling their phones to shut it off. All the people driving by schools and playgrounds, or just have their own children in the car going down a winding road.
Then them taking the time to read the text. While still driving, because if they wait till they stop driving... We lose the main reason for sending them.
I wouldnt be surprised if the number of people who have died from car crashes is greater than the number of children who have been found due to an Amber Alert.
But maybe I'm wrong, I just said I'd be curious to see what the numbers backed up.
Ohhh I get you. Damn, that might be true.
That's our cat and mouse crime strategy.
If you want to disable it on your iPhone, it’s at the very bottom of Settings -> Notifications (under all the apps). You can disable:
Did you have Emergency Alerts enabled but have “Emergency Alerts - Always Play Sound” disabled? If not, I’m curious if anyone who did can report about whether or not it was effective.
This went off at my MAGAfied workplace. I screamed "The vaccine!" and clutched my chest right as it did. I got a few qultists to jump in their seats.
This was hilarious. Almost makes me wish I was surrounded by these guys just so I could do this … OK maybe not.
Yeah, not worth it
Can confirm, it is not worth it.
Doing god's work
Guys, this is a golden opportunity!
Get on Right wing forums and tell them this test has been aborted, because all the clever paranoid nutjobs were onto them.
But, in fact, the test has just been rescheduled to a random time, or rather at random times for the next year or so. Until Biden's time is up and Trump is declared Supreme Emperor I guess. Because really, if you were really conspiring to send a mind control message, you wouldn't broadcast the date & time ffs.
So the only safe thing to do is to turn off their devices, all their devices, and leave them off until after the next election. That includes TVs, of course, and especially Fox News, cuz the Democrats know that Fox News viewers are more cautious and took fewer vaccines, so they'll have scheduled extra Emergency Broadcasts for them.
Fast forward a year, in which all the crazies have to go out and live on the real world and talk to real people, and we might just have a sane country back. At the very least, we'd have a year off...
This is a genius plan.
These people are so fucking stupid.
They think a cellphone has the ability to "activate vaccines and give people Marbug virus", but for some reason think if they turn their phone off to not get the message, that's the only time the signal could be sent out?
Cherry on top:
I saw a different article about this where the nut jobs were telling people to mask up because chemtrails are going to happen at the same time. Also something about drones that send out the signal?
There's just never any logic with them
Unfortunately, I think they’re fucking unwell.
Opportunist media on the right hypes them up and “yes-and”s their paranoia.
Opportunist media on the center-left makes fun of them and then moves along.
Real message should be that we need universal health care, including psychiatry.
There's a lot of undiagnosed (and self-medicated) anxiety disorders out there, and right-wing conspiracism gleefully feeds on it.
Oh so NOW they think masks work
These are people that claim the vaccine injects tracking devices into us, while tweeting (truthing?) from their location-activated cell phones. So logic isn't exactly their strong suit.
We missed our chance to all get together and collectively start acting like zombies as soon as the alert fired.
Then again... all of these lunatics have guns and are just dying for an excuse to start blasting. I'd rather not get shot trolling the crazies.
Starts a Thriller dance
Thriller video flash mob
As if any of them had the balls to start blasting. They love themselves way too much to risk losing their lives.
Hmmm let's see. Backing out of someone's driveway:got shot, knocking on someone's door:got shot, playing hide & seek:got shot. Do you need more examples?
nah, you're right. I was just curious if i could trigger rightards with my comment. These people are dangerous and we need to do something about it.
That's a weird way of saying that despite having guns they don't want to shoot someone.
You know that the crazies are getting off to the thoughts of killing political enemies if you visit /pol, gab, rumble or MeWe just one (1) single time. Weird way of trivialising the inhumane violence the right are hoping, begging, praying for.
That part isn't crazy for them. It's what they vote for every time they're given the chance.
It's literally the point of the southern strategy: hurting your fellow Americans (and yourself) for the lulz/racism/economic anxiety/owning the libs/etc. It's been 50+ years of the working class shooting itself in the foot for Schadenfreude .
Do these people have the memory of an earthworm?
We've had regular testing of alerts over the radio and TV, as well as regular testing of sirens for decades.
They always have selective memories. Very selective.
Even entertaining this theory for a second longer than I really want to, why in these people’s minds would the US government want to destroy itself by turning its citizens into zombies?
Because in this mythology, the Democrats are demonic entities who desire evil for the sake of evil.
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Why are they quoting people with smaller social media followings than my grandma? Who gives a shit.
Maybe if your grandma is the moderately famous octogenarian who plays skyrim on camera.
Like, I heard multiple different versions of what this test was going to do yesterday from multiple different people at work.
All of them absurd.
Hell, the LEAST absurd one was "the government will take over our phones and be able to see our cameras, hear everything we do around our phones, and go through all of our apps and files." to which I said: "If they could do that by sending you a text message, the FBI would never bitch about not being able to get into the iPhone of a suspected criminal ever again."
That worked for about as long as it took someone to say "Coventry".
*sigh*
It drives me bonkers that the idiocy has THIS much reach.
Idiocy having SOME reach has been the case for as long as I've been alive (I mean, c'mon, what group of friends didn't have one member whose crazy uncle had a room full of blacklight posters, bongs, and hookahs who went on constantly about how the mayans invented cordless phones?) but social media sure takes the reach to a new and ridiculous level.
Exponential spread of narrative through degrees of connection.
A source with a small number of followers can still reach a wide audience by their followers sharing with their followers sharing with their followers and so on
Well, good thing I just downplayed their importance and everyone will just ignore them.
I heard that this is Biden’s Order 66, and it’s going to activate the antifa super-soldiers and turn all frogs gay.
And it worked too. You don't see any Jedi walking around, do you?
It baffles me on stupid some of the human race is. How do they function? I know they're fueled by fear and hate but to actually function and hold a job is just astonishing to me.
Monke supposed to hit deer with stick and pick berries. Monke not supposed to face existential crisis all around world, work, pay bills, think about microplastic,or stare at black rectangle for hours. Monke confused, afraid, overwhelmed. Monke trying, and failing, to make sense of it all.
Worst zombie apocalypse ever.
“Sorry, too busy bleeding from my eyeballs to bite your face. By the way, can you hand me my lung please? I’d bend over to get it myself but then my colon would fall out.”
Any one feel like eating a vegan all of the sudden?
I mean, if she's willing...
Just went off. Nothing happened. Another dumb right wing thing put to bed.
Nice try zombie!
Brainsssss…
I'm bummed. I was hoping I'd get some Antifa super soldier powers but my phone just made an annoying noise.
stop with your left wing liberal lying, you left wing liberal shill!
I'll have you know that 3 different viruses tried to be activated in my body the second it went off, and only by pouring hydrochloric acid in my ear and soaking my anus in drain cleaner for 18 hours was I able to destroy your liberal government antennas in my body was I able to prevent it!
Help me move the goal posts please.
I know this is a worldwide phenomenon, but I've never met a live one over here (non US). How common are those lunatics over there?
There are several people in my office of ~50 people who called in sick or are trying to avoid phones today.
You should get everyone to start acting sick and weird lolol
"Bob it's so strange I'm not feeling so well all of a sudden"
"All of a sudden Bob you started....smelling delicious"
Lmao
What's dangerous is having an entire nation of voters this stupid. We need zero tolerance.
Do you remember pre-mass-adoption of the internet? These headlines remind of the hoax/canned spam emails, like the, "forward this on to 50 people or a loved one will die" type stuff.
Back then idiot friends would occasionally sign in to AOL from dial up and send those to me. Decades later we've turned the hoax email "To: field" into an "@" soap box that reaches thousands and echoes far quicker. I think we used to be blissfully ignorant and much less influenced back then. I miss that version of my mom, the one that didn't think masks are satanic rituals.
E: I don't want to come off as head in the sand, old ways are the best... I've developed a much better world view since the internet came along and that's a good thing.
I remember my father telling me about a "news story" that he heard where a guy had a drink, woke up in a tub full of ice, and saw a note telling him some organ had been removed and he should go to a hospital.
I told my father that this was an urban legend and it never happened. My father insisted that he saw it on the national news. I pressed him and he eventually admitted that he read it in an email someone forwarded to him. Still, he insisted, if it was in the email it must have happened at some point! 🤦♂️
And in case you're wondering, yes, my father is a FOX News watching Trump supporter who was horrified that I supported "socialist" Bernie Sanders in the primaries.
I hate to do this to you...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66988933
Good, live in self-manufactured fear, morons.
All these conspiracy theories are fascinating to me. I legitimately read them all and think to myself "How do people come up with this!?"
I think you can get pretty close with a madlib like approach.
On date the partyleftofGOP will deploy somethingbad using techIdon'tunderstand. This is because somegroupwehate is trying to somethingbad the country, somethingreallybad your mind\guns\freedom and somethingelsebad your kids.
All this is because Biden\Obama\AOC is being controlled by Antifa\TheGayAgenda\Globalists thanks to information carelessly left on HunterBiden'sLaptop.
PS: Hillary'sEmails
I'm going to fill it out like I did in 3rd grade:
On 4/20 the Green Party will deploy farts using VR. This is because butts is trying to fart on the country, poop on your mind\guns\freedom and pee on your kids.
All this is because Biden\Obama\AOC is being controlled by Antifa\TheGayAgenda\Globalists thanks to information carelessly left on butts.
Personally I store all my information on butts.
I love it!
As far as the "tech I don't understand" part is concerned, I think it's a combination of news media misreporting scientific discoveries/developments and a "telephone game" on social media.
Science says that mRNA in vaccines is used by the body to create proteins that fool the immune system into mounting a response. The media reports "mRNA enters the body and the changes the immune system." (Technically correct, but they left out some crucial steps.)
Then someone reads it, misunderstands the science entirely and thinks it changes your DNA. This gets passed around, changing slightly each time ala the telephone game until its "nanoparticles in the vaccine will turn you into a zombie."
At each stage, the truth can be found with a minor amount of actual research. (As opposed to "what does my MAGA uncle say on Facebook?") But the Telephone Game Version lines up with their view of Liberals Bad so they accept it as truth. Then they pass it on and it mutates once more.
I used to spend time reading through r/conspiracy because of how entertaining it was reading them all.
Man, I remember growing up in the 80s where we had a test of the emergency broadcast system every month, and like clockwork there was a manufactured crisis. The 80s were wild.
Remember when they had the aliens abduct us all? The anal probes were fun.
I still remember my third grade teacher showing The Day After to our class. For anyone who doesn't know, that was a TV movie about nuclear war that was extremely graphic for the time. Grown adults had trouble watching it and my teacher showed it to us third graders.
For weeks afterwards, I thought that any plane flying overhead was a nuclear missile that was going to kill us all.
Ah, the 80's!
“That’s how they’re activating the sleeper cells, the ones who got programmed with the 5G virus, they’re all gonna get activated at the same time yo come take our guns away and rape our grandmas, and institute Biden’s Fifth Reich!”
This and Jade Helm are coming for the ReelMuricans' precious bodily fluids. This, plus masks and the vaccines.
I'm so glad I quit my last job so I don't have to get brain cancer listening to these conspiracies discussed in earnest from my christofascist manager and her bootlicking sidekick
I love these morons... "I'm an open heart surgery survivor and I've had the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines like 5 times now? 6 times? Need to check my vaccine card... No problems, no Covid either."
It's all true, and I'm pretty sure my dong just got even bigger as a result! Thanks, White Hats!
Hey you guys,
I found footage of their mind control research with sound tones.
https://youtu.be/ZUus9Z82Vec?t=40
Thought this was going to be the dail up tone
I mean, we had a similar test in the UK ages ago so surely they realise this hasn't affected vaccinated people?... What do they think it's going to do, exactly?
Russian troll farms are being productive
I'm sad that I didn't get any of these from people I know.
I blocked a lot of people during the covid scare. And was hoping to prune the list even more.
I was curious if my phone would work in the microwave since it's supposed to be a farriday cage and I was able to maintain a call and yell at my microwave to carry on a conversation with the person on the other end.
Nah its not a Faraday cage really. Ever wonder why they always have the same weird thick boi door? Its because when you close it, the door acts as a quarter-wave choke for the 2.45Ghz microwave signal (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide_flange#Choke_connection). But this only works for that very specific frequency.
Faraday cages are tuned by the porosity of the material you use to block specific frequencies. So it’s not surprising that the phone worked in the microwave.
Yeah, microwave ovens are designed with a frequency of around 2.4 Ghz. This is somehow an efficient frequency for exciting/energizing water molecules in food and drink. So it should block that common wifi frequency, but now 5 Ghz wifi is common, and 6 Ghz wifi is also available. And a lot of cellular frequencies are under 1 Ghz, so it makes sense that the microwave wouldn't block those signals.
Nitpick but the EBS was renamed to EAS ages ago. These people are stuck in 1990.
warning: obnoxious
edit: link not showing up?
sadge. Honestly the homebrewed attention signals back before the EBS and EAS stuff were truly standardized were hilarious.
Good gravy.
bad gravy!
these guys ruined it cause they probably aren’t smart enough to make it correctly
It must be great being a cult leader. You can make all sorts of ridiculous claims. Every once in w while you're right and you can go "SEE!? SEEEEE!? I WAS RIGHT, I AM YOUR GOD!" and for the other 99.999% of the times that you're wrong, you can just claim some other ridiculous reason which then also will be believed.
I'll be getting a vaccine about that time, so I'm looking forward to it.
"Jason Shurka" is not a spirituality influencer, they are just a conspiracy theorist who co-opted spirituality like the right does with co-opting things and turning them into a message of hate
Spirituality is free of religous dogma and dogma in general as it is a personal practice that the individual can tune to their needs
Don't let these kinds of people co-opt spirituality and use it as a thinly veiled facade to spread hate and misinformation, bigotry and dogma
Yeah... They're fucking morons.
I, for one, welcome our new zombie overlords.
Transdimensional cephlopod zombie overlords.