The zombies are already here

Yeah… so this is the antivax mob’s latest bullshit. The real zombies, of course, are already among us: they’re the ones propagating this nonsense. Via Rolling Stone:

Virtually nothing in these comments is accurate, save for the fact that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Federal Communications Commission are conducting tests of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Oct. 4. (The Emergency Broadcast System, or EBS, was replaced by the EAS in 1997.) The wireless portion, to occur at approximately 2:20pm ET, “will be directed to all consumer cell phones,” and consist of a simple message: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” At most, it will be a mild surprise or annoyance. And it certainly won’t turn you into a zombie (which the often fatal Marbug virus doesn’t do in any case).
But for online conspiracists, the bland, bureaucratic announcement of such a test can only portend some kind of disaster — preferably the kind they can brace for while the rest of the clueless public remains unprepared. The exact nature of the Oct. 4 event depends on who is offering the prediction, but theories tend to focus on the alleged dangers of vaccines and 5G signals. 5G cellular networks, which telecoms began implementing in 2019, have been erroneously associated with Covid and vaccines by conspiracists throughout the pandemic; in the U.K. this past June, two anti-vaxxers were convicted of a criminal plot to destroy 5G towers they referred to as “enemy infrastructure.”

So. Much. Psychosis. The best thing is that they couldn’t even agree on what the conspiracy really was supposed to be, whether it was graphene oxide, RFID chips, or various viruses, just that Covid vaccines were involved and FEMA was behind whatever was supposed to happen…

…and then you have this dickhead who reckons it could still happen cos the Infowars clone he retweeted told him so. It’s like they want this to happen, really.