QAnon social media campaigns also sent believers scrambling to their local hospitals—but not to help anyone. In April 2020, less than a month after the shared trauma of Covid’s emergence seemed to galvanize and unite most people around the world in support of its victims, Anons began urging one another to #FilmYourHospital. Armed with their smartphones and under the impression that the pandemic was either overblown or entirely fake, they filmed empty hospital lobbies and parking lots. At least one Film Your Hospital ringleader even bypassed security in a hospital to storm a coronavirus ward to
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