The Dreamers

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In other parts of the country, certain skeptics remain. A new hashtag begins to trend: #SantaLoraHoax.

The government, they are sure, knows more than it is saying. That’s the real reason they’ve cut off the town: to hide whatever it is they have done.

The only thing that’s real are the soldiers. That’s what this is really about: an excuse to let the government take control. Think about it. Santa Lora is probably only the beginning, a test case.

Or if it is real, it’s our own damn fault. It might be Russia that’s behind this, or North Korea. Some kind of nerve agent, maybe, released by a drone. Haven’t we been asking for something like this for years? Going around the world and dropping our bombs? Or more likely, the government just wants us to think we’re under attack.

Just open your eyes, people. If you really believe this Santa Lora story, then you probably think that the fluoride in the water really is for our teeth and that a passenger airplane really did crash into the Pentagon on 9/11.

And have you heard the latest numbers? Fifteen hundred cases in six weeks? Come on, nothing spreads that fast.