In this case it's more like someone else has been shot, but point taken.

We've all at the very least received some shrapnel. Most of us have been proverbially shot. And then there are place like Canada and Australia, which have been straight up nuked. As well as Germany, the UK, and the like, which were only conventionally bombed.

"But, oh, people are waking up," I say, as everything is on fire, and bullets are still flying.

Analogies aside, I do still think it's a positive sign that less people are listening to the propaganda. That's a positive trend if nothing else, although I agree we're still very much in deep trouble.