For many of us long time cynics, Covid 19 is not a true SHTF scenario, but simply a good rehearsal for one. All the frantic, store binging activity is just as we thought the early stages of SHTF would be. This is a good thing as it points out to us weak spots in our preps.
Having said the above, look at Covid 19 through the Bambi-like eyes of the unprepared. No TP in the stores is not an inconvenience, it’s the end of the world. When other staples started going away, it just reinforced their belief the end was here.
I believe that there was never a need for mass hysteria, total lock down, or the attempted destruction of our economy, good cleaning and hygiene habits, masks, and social distancing could well have taken care of this.
We didn’t stop with that because first, the Progressive leadership is desperately trying to bring Trump down and did their level best to make the situation as bad as they could.
Secondly, and more importantly because it describes a major danger to us all, and that is the media. For the same purposes as the Progressives, they whipped up a fear of dying, that I’ve not seen in my lifetime (I’m old!).
Coupled with this last point, we have a generation of Millennials that had fear rubbed in their nose, the fact that they might die someday and they weren’t ready for it. They expected to live forever, bad things would never happen to them, and life is fair.
Suddenly, bad things COULD happen to them, they weren’t going to live forever, and life is not fair and can be very hard.
We should all be aware that this fear mongering is the real issue here, not the flu. The next time they do this, it really could tip us over past the ability to recover.
This media influence is a Clear and Present danger which is FAR worse that Cover 19 because the only cure for it is self education, which many progressive and younger people adamantly refuse to do.
As a Pandemic, Covid 19 only registers 3rd or 4th from the bottom of history’s plagues.
Indeed, many of us lived through the Hong Cong Flu, which killed 1-4 million people around the world from 1956 to 1958- I remember it, but there was no panic or hysteria involved; the Swine flu in 2009, which killed 200K people – no panic then; and the annual flu which we have vaccines for kills over 60,000 per year- every year – neither of these get any special attention by the media or the progressives. Smallpox was the worst, killing 300 to 500 MILLION people the first 75 years of the 20 century.
Still, the media continues to beat the drum over covid 19 and, for the past weeks over the George Floyd case and the attendant riots.
This is not new. A quote here would be appropriate;
“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
You might think that quote was from Donald J Trump. You would be wrong. It was said by Malcolm X.