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COVID-Denialist: “Rona Is as Real as You Want it To Be”
COVID-like illness intensifies egocentrism of “free birth” influencer.
Updated 9.27.21
While members of the Disinformation Dozen pull in millions per year with crude torrents of meme-based COVID denialist propaganda, “free birth” coach Yolande Norris-Clark focuses on elevating the artistry and distilling the philosophy of this anti-social movement.
With a modest 44K followers on Instagram and 2600 on Telegram, the former piano teacher and ceramicist isn’t in it for the money. If Joseph Mercola is the Jeff Bezos of COVID disinformation, @bauhauswife, as she’s known on social, is its boutiquier — producing chic slides in Sonny Gothic font, and ASMR-laden sermons on YouTube, complete with vogue outfits.
Over the past few weeks, this curatorial approach — and her own reports of symptoms that sound like severe COVID — provide a crystal-clear window into the core egocentrism of conspirituality: the assertion that our thoughts create reality.
In a post from September 22nd, Norris-Clark informed the families of the almost 5M people who have died of COVID19 that “Rona is as real as you want it to be.”
