The COVID vaccine deniers and QAnon believers coming to speak at the Arizona legislature

U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is among those scheduled to appear May 25-26 at the ‘Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee’ at the State Legislature.

AZ Mirror
A special committee created by the Arizona legislature to examine the state’s response to COVID-19 will feature a litany of speakers who have spread disinformation about the pandemic, vaccines, spoken at QAnon events and have conspiratorial beliefs about the virus, including believing it will usher in the “mark of the beast.”

And the two-day hearing is being promoted by QAnon-friendly groups with an acronym that has significance in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The “Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee” will hold two days of hearings on May 25 and May 26 at the Arizona Capitol, during which a string of ostensible experts will tell the state and federal Republican lawmakers on the panel their opinions on the pandemic, and Arizona’s response to it. MORE