There was a recent study that looked at co morbidities, peak prosperity went through it.
Obviously #1 was obesity, interestingly and ironically enough, "anxiety or fear related disorder" was the #2 co morbidity. But only if you'd developed it during covid, pre existing anxiety disorders are not a relevant co morbidity.
So there is not scientific backing that the media is scaring people to death.
I’m probably older than many here, but the fear I have witnessed the media pushed in my lifetime is absurd. It’s bad now, but the ‘80’s were really bad as well. I can’t even remember them all.
The Halloween candy has needles and razor blades so homemade treats are now verboten and you have to get everything x rayed.
Missing children. You’d seriously have thought kids disappeared from every block in America every month.
Satanism. This one was huge. “There may be satanic rituals taking place in your neighborhood! Stay tuned, stay informed.”
Drugs. This was a full on “war.” Junior is going to get handed drugs, hard drugs, everyday at school. The fear factor on this turned up huge in the 80’s because it was Nancy Reagan’s pet. There were kindergarteners getting lectured by cops.
There were legitimate safety campaigns around things like drunk driving or seat belts (when I was little I rode in the front seat and my seat belt was my mom’s arm), but then in the ‘90’s all of the fear porn morphed into Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore basically morphing a supermajority of middle aged American women into overbearing helicopter soccer moms. It was fucking surreal to watch as the “It Takes a Village” dreck became mainstream.
But COVID has taken that fear porn and magnified it by a thousand. The younger generation is destroyed.
There was a recent study that looked at co morbidities, peak prosperity went through it.
Obviously #1 was obesity, interestingly and ironically enough, "anxiety or fear related disorder" was the #2 co morbidity. But only if you'd developed it during covid, pre existing anxiety disorders are not a relevant co morbidity.
So there is not scientific backing that the media is scaring people to death.
I’m probably older than many here, but the fear I have witnessed the media pushed in my lifetime is absurd. It’s bad now, but the ‘80’s were really bad as well. I can’t even remember them all.
The Halloween candy has needles and razor blades so homemade treats are now verboten and you have to get everything x rayed.
Missing children. You’d seriously have thought kids disappeared from every block in America every month.
Satanism. This one was huge. “There may be satanic rituals taking place in your neighborhood! Stay tuned, stay informed.”
Drugs. This was a full on “war.” Junior is going to get handed drugs, hard drugs, everyday at school. The fear factor on this turned up huge in the 80’s because it was Nancy Reagan’s pet. There were kindergarteners getting lectured by cops.
There were legitimate safety campaigns around things like drunk driving or seat belts (when I was little I rode in the front seat and my seat belt was my mom’s arm), but then in the ‘90’s all of the fear porn morphed into Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore basically morphing a supermajority of middle aged American women into overbearing helicopter soccer moms. It was fucking surreal to watch as the “It Takes a Village” dreck became mainstream.
But COVID has taken that fear porn and magnified it by a thousand. The younger generation is destroyed.
A chunk of a family got wiped out by that. Never caught the guy but I remember my mom throwing away the Tylenol. Good memory by you!