"This minor symptom could be a sign that you have Lancia Delta Integrale variant!"
"These scientists say super Covid could emerge any time, with insane killing potential"
"This virus emerging in (insert country here) could be even worse than Covid!"
"Look at this perfectly healthy (actually has leukemia) boy who died of Covid-19"
"The ice in Siberia is melting and revealing long hidden viruses that could cause the next pandemic"
It's the same fucking tactic the feminists use to push boys to be girls. Same fucking tactic that abusive wives use to beat down their partners. Any minor issue is a sign of greater problems and constantly fearbombing.
I had a female family member go to the emergency department in the middle of the night recently because she was anxious and couldn't sleep about some non-emergency test results performed earlier in the day qnd didn't have the discipline qnd coping skills to wait for her doctor's office to call her with the results the next morning.
To be clear, she wasn't having any emergency symptoms. And her doctor wasn't on-call at the hospital. The hospital wasn't even the facility that performed her test the day before and didn't have access to her pending results.
She just went to the emergency in the middle of the night because "she couldn't wait". So of course the poor ER doc didn't have anything to offer her, but they of course redundantly ran a second series of futile tests that weren't necessary and validated her decision.
When another female family member was describing the series of events and I commented that it was an inappropriate use of the emergency department and being anxious and impatient are not excuses not to wait until morning to call your doctor's office.
The second narrating female family member said they disagreed and "would have done the same thing" and felt that "anxious feelings" were a perfectly good reason to use emergency services in the middle of the night.
We subsequently got into an argument when I pointed out that the emergency department is for "emergency symptoms" not "negative feelings".
It really made me realize how dangerous female decision-making processes can be if they are so heavily-weighted by feelings, even if this example is relatively benign.