I think I have a good one and I don't think it's necessarily a spiritually depressing thing or
what would be a good way to phrase how I do things Chelsea.
Sad. I don't think it's sad in the same way they're usually sad.
No, they're more soul crushing.
Yeah.
I wish I could find a better source for this, but just because I couldn't find a source that we would
normally go with, just like take into account how serious this thing is because I had the options
of Daily Mail, New York Post or The Times of India and I'm going with The Times of India.
I was like not another iPhone again and another C8.
Even they're not covering it Chelsea.
I'm surprised you went with it then to be honest.
This is on January 5th. It came from the TOI Times of India trending desk,
which I don't think that somebody who can write. So I don't know who wrote this article.
Still a better source than the New York Post though.
Okay.
Article title.
I'm not sure this is going.
Mysterious toxic fog sparks health concerns and conspiracy theories across the U.S.
A mysterious thick fog.
Go ahead.
I haven't heard of this anywhere at all.
Yeah.
Except The Times of India, of course.
Written by an anonymous source.
A mysterious thick fog with burning chemical like smell has enveloped
parts of the U.S.
sparking conspiracy theories in social media and health concerns among local residents who have
reportedly developed symptoms like sneezing, stomach cramps and feverishness.
Also coincidentally this is also flu season.
So just.
Social media is a buzz with posts wondering if it is part of a terrorist plot or a government
experiment.
Other conspiracy theories worry about it being a chemical weapon and some suspect
it connects with the mysterious drone sightings that occurred in December.
By the way, I do think we have to like clear up this elephant in the room here.
The drone sightings.
They've been happening.
We have a moral obligation only to cover fringe topics, which means if normal people
are talking about it, it's past a fringe topic.
We can't cover the drones.
That's just that's our sacred oath that we took as podcast hosts here.
It says it right in the name.
We can continue podcasting if we were to cover it.
Yeah, like we get our license taken away.
So yeah.
And that's not made up at all.
That is not.
We do have kind of a gut check on it and specifically people who talk to us if they
bring up these topics and we cannot talk about it.
So that's where that's basically.
I don't understand why.
Yeah.
Because they don't even listen to the black.
Yeah.
You have to.
Okay.
That's why you're not going to hear about the drones until way down the line from here.
Yeah.
The sightings caught the attention of netizens when a flurry of posts appeared around spotting
of the mysterious fog on December 29.
Soon, many people claimed to have detected a chemical like odor and that it led to flu
like symptoms.
Many dubbed it fogs.
Reporting unexplained loss of energy, a Florida resident told the Daily Mail that they started
experiencing a series of symptoms after being outside in the fog for just 10 minutes.
Well, within about an hour, I kept sneezing over and over for about three hours and my eyes
were really puffy.
I got very warm.
I felt like I had a fever and my stomach was cramping.
End quote.
Claimed an unnamed Floridian, a family in Colorado.
A family in Florida people.
Oh yeah, they're true to their word.
You are.
There's one thing you can't eclipse a Floridian of.
It's embellishing anything.
A family in Colorado shared their experience,
expecting that the sore throat, lethargy and stomach upset they were experiencing isn't
due to food poisoning as they had earlier believed, but the effects of the fog.
A resident said.
Fun, how widespread is the fog?
I still don't know.
It's Colorado and Florida, apparently.
It's going to keep going.
They're pretty far apart.
Yeah.
I don't know if they know that in India.
A resident of St. Petersburg, Florida said the fog left a quote unquote toxic taste in his mouth.
Quote.
I am sick with a fever, body aches, vomiting and can't breathe.
In the Minneapolis area, I know this is related to the fog since when is their fog in Minneapolis
in December?
End quote.
Said a user.
Quote.
This fog isn't natural.
There's something off about it.
Too dense, too controlled.
I've seen enough to recognize patterns and this feels engineered.
End quote.
Said another.
I love these sources.
Oh boy.
Conspiracy theories abound around the mysterious fog.
A video clipping posted on X shows a flurry of particles floating in the fog.
The user suspect it's no usual weather phenomenon, but a sort of bio weapon.
A Daily Mail report mentioned that the incidents bear an uncanny
resemblance to quote operation sea spray on quote a covert biological warfare experiment
carried out by the US Navy in 1950.
Serratia marcescens and bat batulis globigie bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco
Bay area at the time to ascertain how vulnerable a large American city may be to a bio weapon attack.
At least one American died and 10 others were seriously sickened due to this.
According to the Daily Mail, people on X are speculating that the government
quote dumped a bunch of microbes on the country this week in the form of fog.
End quote.
Quote.
In the form of fog.
Yes, it tastes and smells like after setting off a lot of fireworks that self-forspell.
End quote.
One TikTok user wrote adding that it is quote freaking me out.
End quote.
Coincidentally, this was over the new year.
What?
There were fireworks everywhere.
Fog, a cloud of tiny water droplets or ice crystals near the Earth's surface forms
when the air temperature.
We do not need to know this.
You guys freaking know how fog works.
Industrial emissions, the equal exhaust chemical releases or natural toxins like volcanic gases
introduce harmful substances into the atmosphere.
Moisture in the air combines with these pollutants.
Water droplets in the fog can absorb and react with toxic chemicals creating acetic
and hazardous particles.
There can be ill effects of toxic smog and they list them.
Respiratory issues, cardiovascular problems,
eye and throat irritation, weakened immune systems and neurological effects.
And with that, they end the article.
So yeah, like I said, nobody really a for cute is covering this.
And there's really not a lot other than speculation on X.
It's just Florida Man and TikTok.
Has anyone considered that this may possibly just been fog?
May have just been fog and maybe people are just getting sick because it's a particularly
bad flu season.
Who knows?
One speculation I heard because the word fog vid is being thrown around on X right now
is basically within the atmosphere and a lot of right wing groups.
There's been a lot of push on like weird health things.
Like obviously with RFK Junior coming in, there's the anti-vax stuff.
Also the the seed oils are apparently bad.
So people have been dropping them.
People are switching to the meat only diet and eating organ meats to stay healthy.
They're still getting sick.
So they're they're they're going down other conspiracy holes to explain how they're still
getting sick.
I'm looking at the fog vid to hashtag.
I don't know if the first one is Toronto and it's clearly snow.
I don't know that people know it.
No, so yeah headlights look like I in fact think it might just be the Monday and people
are getting sick and conspiracy theorists need a way to push it to not just be them
getting sick because the things they've been told won't get them sick.
Of course, it's also not that big of a thing.
So I guess I don't know if you if you oh, go ahead.
Even Bill Cock is like.
I'm gonna put my phone away so that I don't just open that up.
But yeah, I take it with what it is.
Like it's the Daily Mail, the New York Post and the Times of India that I was able to find this on.
They had no actual sources.
They talked to no people in the scientific community or the public service and no epoch
times or iPhone in Canada dot CA.
No, even they're not covering it.
That we should do any epoch times articles.
I don't think we ever have.
I've done one, you know, I have by accident.
Yeah, you did.
And that's how we got those episodes.
You're welcome.
But yeah, I think I don't know if you're going to go through fog holes, I guess,
and let this like if you're worried about this worry, worry about regulations on the
environmental impact of pollution there.
You're welcome.
Talk to your Congress people or whoever you can in the next 48 hours.
Get back here.
We'll regroup.
Okay, bye.
Bye bye.