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Zerohedge’s source was Ron Paul, who was apparently making stuff up:

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/southwest-cancels-hundred...

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...

Sounds like a similar tactic to blaming the Texas blackout on renewable energy. An event that irritates the general public is fertile ground for opportunists to be first to press with something from ideology rather than information.

This is the unfortunate consequence of a significant portion of the US electorate not punishing, and even rewarding, politicians for simply lying, as long as it's lies that they agree with.

You now have a group of politicians who will use any scenario where there is raised attention and tension to claim their particular issues are the cause for it because their supporters have absolutely no care for the truth value of what they are saying.

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