A Conspiracy Theorist Pays The Price For Spreading Her Ridiculous Ideas

A lead flute player with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has been dismissed after months of posting conspiracy theories on her social media. The article states that beginning in February, the orchestra had to publicly distance itself after months of her social media activities. She had then been disciplined but continued the screwy posts, and they had to fire her. Considering the longevity of her career with the BSO and a talent that earned her a solo album, the posts must have reeked of bullshit.

Scala also had a history of bitching about attempts by the BSO to recruit people of color. She made statements in emails about how, if that was ever to happen, black parents would have to instill a love of classical music in their children. That’s not exactly constructive, but it is absolutely racist, her implication being that the average black family isn’t cultured enough for liking classical music, limiting themselves to (implied) less sophisticated genres.

I found the emails disgusting but those are not being discussed in the news. What got her fired was claiming that a laboratory in North Carolina engineered COVID-19, then sold it to the lab in Wuhan, possibly one of the most loopy goddamn conspiracy theories yet about covid. When are they going to learn that to fool the maximum amount of people possible that their goofy ideas have to at least be plausible enough so as not to make their own bosses issue statements that they do not share nor condone the bullshit in the first place?

Especially if the entity one works for tried to avoid the necessity of issuing the statement. Scala was warned more than once. She pushed it and paid the price. Au revoir, simple. You did it to yourself. Good luck finding an entire symphony of Trump cultists.

Oh, and that’s another thing: she is one of those Trump supporters who remain convinced that the election was rigged against Trump. Bigly. Roll over, Beethoven. You can go back to sleep now.

Earthquake In Howard County

This morning at approximately 02:00 a 2.1 temblor was felt in my county. It was about five miles from me and I swear I wouldn’t bring it up, but my TV was a bit loud and I was about to turn down the volume when something sounded like the neighbors upstairs had gotten pissed at me, hauled off and thrown a fucking cannonball across their living room. Seriously, I didn’t know a 2.1 could be that loud, nor that it even was an earthquake until I saw it on the news at 05:00.

I wonder what Ms. Scala would think about it. Since it was felt in D.C., maybe she’ll tweet that someone tried to assassinate the president with an vintage twelve-pounder.

Holy crud, we’re all doomed. Something is eating people’s brains. Maybe there really will be a zombie apocalypse with all this stupid going on.