I think there is something to the low IQ thing!
I am in a location that gets infrequent snow, and we happened to get a good bit over the weekend. County offices closed, businesses closed, and schools are now going to be closed for the third day in a row.
Local Facebook and NextDoor groups are blowing up with people outraged at the decision to close schools tomorrow, even though most roads are perfectly fine. I've been driving around since Monday (I do have 4x4).
The outrage goes something like this:
"I can't believe they're closing schools again, the road in front of my house is totally clear! It's ridiculous! This is an outrage!"
Well ok, the roads in front of YOUR house may be clear, but when you get to the hilly and more rural areas of the county--where school buses still have to drive--those roads are very treacherous right now. A school bus drove off a hill and flip just a few years ago when it it hit a large patch of black ice going around a curve. This is not a theoretical issue.
There is just a really large contingent of people who just cannot think in "what ifs" or beyond their immediate "right now" situation. (And to be clear, if they were saying "the schools should have had alternative plans for dangerous school bus routes" I would agree! It's just the idiocy of "me me me, now now now" that is striking.)
My friend and I used to cruise all around the city (decades ago when gas was cheap and joy riding was fun), him in his car me in mine. We'd usually drive tandem. But occasionally someone tailgate us. We basically worked out a system to alert the other driver and would switch to driving side by side and deliberately go slow to piss off the other driver. Even better, we alternate speeding up and slowing down. One would speed up just enough to lure the tailgater to switching lanes, them hoping they'd pass us. Then we'd switch to coasting, the other guy would speed up and do the same thing just to fuck with them. The poor dipshit would frantically change lanes left right left right desperately trying to pass us. We'd be on our cells fucking dying of laughter.