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> We went from mass societal panic about Covid to mass societal panic about Ukraine basically without skipping a beat and few people notice how their energy was
by perfunctory 5y ago
> We went from mass societal panic about Covid to mass societal panic about Ukraine basically without skipping a beat and few people notice how their energy was redirected so seamlessly.
Could it have to do with the fact that covid is the biggest pandemic in hundred years and that the UN Security Council had to call an emergency special session for the first time in 40 years because of Ukraine.
If these are not good reasons for "fear-porn", what do you think would be?
- ithkuil 5y agoSadly it proves the point in a perverse way: we're so used to everything being important that we/some got desensitized and no longer perceive the true scale of things. (The boy who cried wolf, etc)
- sonotathrowaway 5y agoThat doesn’t make any sense at all.
- ithkuil 5y agoI agree; it's utterly irrational; yet I literally hear a non small number of people around me living and thinking like that
- bogota 5y agoCovid for 90% of the population was never something to have fear over. Something to be cautious about yes but the range of sheer panic among people under 40 in good health that i met was beyond silly. I don’t trust the media anymore on anything. Every article they print that i have deep knowledge about or insider information on is so wrong as to be malicious. Read the news to get an idea of what is going on but any opinion they present and most facts are pure bullshit.
- unethical_ban 5y agoThere was a summer when we didn't know what the hell the virus was going to do. Where hospitals were overflowing so much that if a young person got in a car accident they'd sit in an ambulance. Or if they got the sniffles and hugged their mom they'd kill her. I'm starting to distrust any person who claims to distrust the media over covid.
- dijonman2 5y ago> I'm starting to distrust any person who claims to distrust the media over covid. We know more than we ever have about the virus but we’re still pushing bullshit mandates. It’s over, time to move on.
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- unethical_ban 5y agoSome people are pushing mandates, many aren't. And there was a time when mandates made sense. There may likely be a time in the future when a mandate would make sense again.
- bogota 5y ago> there was a summer… Yes. A summer. Not two years.
- cplusplusfellow 5y agoI would say that we had a spring even. Because by the summer with the whole world taking to the streets over George Floyd, it seemed pretty much like we weren’t going to have a major problem.
- sonotathrowaway 5y agoI don’t ever remember the fear of covid among informed people being the mortality risk of under 40’s. I do remember the covid fear being the collapse of the healthcare system due to under-resourced hospitals being stretched to thin from the rate of hospitalization of covid cases. I also know that people did die from being crowded out by covid patients.