Everything has to be sensationalized.
Its all part of that downward spiral.
The more panic, the more excuse for govt to take control and have authority. Which they have WAY to much of anyways.
We just talked about this last night in a training exercise. People are being pushed harder and harder towards more fear and more anxiety. And a HUGE volume of people are buying into it.
I could give a darn about the weather. But it was a good excuse to harass Frank and have a few laughs.
Add in Helicopter parenting... kids who are kept in bubble wrap from youth and protected from mean thing... like second place or falling off a trike and learning it's better to not fall off a trike.
You have a whole generation who expects every box of sweet cereal they scream for in the grocery aisle and nothing ever to hurt their feelings or make them feel bad... no boogey men. Mommy will protect you.
Weather? You must Protect yourself from dangerous rays. Heat indexes. Wind chill. Black ice (which is racist... ice is clear ;-) . 5 inches of snow is now a blizzard. 1" of snow means school must be closed.
If it saves the life of just one child!
Fur ze Kinder....
We need a serious crisis in this country to weed out the chaff. Made-up-pandemic is not a real existential threat. It's a test to see who the compliant are and how easy it is to make them... comply. 1919 was a real pandemic. That was an existential threat. The Great Depression. WW2. The Civil War.
Nope, all we have is an easy comfy life in which even the poor have satellite TV's and cars in the driveway and don't need to work. 911, as horiffic as it was for those directly affected, was followed by "Spend money and consume, its patriotic." And an economic boom that lasted until the music stopped in 2008... when everyone got bailed out.
Scaring people with the weather? People don't understand this? Heck, PePe LePew, Paw Patrol and Starbelly Sneetches are considered too racist, sexist, violent and racist for today's ADULTS! Using the weather to terrify the bubble wrap generation of no-immune-system "I Feel You" losers... I'd expect no less.
At the same time, they are terrifying them with evil-looking guns, scary red hats, and made-up militias.
Meh... I know it sounds cold, callous and mean. But we need a good global disaster. Vesuvius would be nice. Or maybe a city-whacking asteroid. A crop failure of biblical proportions. Maybe Cali sliding into the ocean. I'll draw the line at a bleed-out virus or aliens. Those scare me.
But humanity needs a reality check to show people that being offended by pronouns is not first world problems... it's mental health problems. Real problems? Meh, we haven't had one of those since August 1945, though the species did come close a few times.
Sirhr
P.S. If you call everyone 'retard' it's gender-neutral.