Steven Brandenburg is the notorious pharmacist from Wisconsin who was charged with ruining hundreds of COVID vaccines because he believed they were a giant hoax.
But as is so often the case, it turns out he doesn’t just cling to a single conspiracy theory. He’s absolutely full of them. They involve the belief that the Earth is flat and that the sky is a manmade object meant to block us from God. He’s also someone who frightened people close to him, who thought he would resort to violence.
The Daily Beast has more on the FBI search warrant application which was just unsealed:
People like this needed to be institutionalized. Maybe we should reopen all the state mental hospitals.
Reagan cut funding for mental health to pay fo the tax cuts for the rich, but to do ti legally he had to change the definition of mental illness. His changes in policies was responsible to the huge increase of homeless people in the 1980's.