> Meanwhile there is some belief in chemtrails amongst a few of the younger people I know going on FB group posts I see them share.

Reminds me of a thing I learned here on HN recently. The US was in fact intentionally spraying germs on unsuspecting civilians in San Francisco, among other places, as a part of research related to biological warfare. Turns out there's some grain of truth even in the chemtrails crackpottery.