Fear porn, really?
Like the signs at Yellowstone warning you not to go near bear dens in the spring?
Like the warnings to leave coastal cities when a hurricane is expected to make landfall in the area?
Like the road detour signs put up to route you around a collapsed bridge?
Like that kind of fear porn?
There is a huge difference between using bogeymen (like the white supremacists lurking behind every corner) to instill fear and obtain compliance and giving people an accurate assessment of a risk along with guidelines on how to mitigate it.
As of today, there are 439,536 people in the US dead from Covid-19, and the death rate rose again, to 1.686%. In the past 24 hours, 2,695 people died--this is more than die daily from abortion or heart disease (our previous #1 and #2 killers). Those dead people were real people who actually existed.
And the vast majority who died had co-morbities. Please address that situation.
‘Those dead people were real people who actually existed.’
eh...? every single dead person ever was someone who existed at some point; are you attempting to make some point...?
Exactly right. My daughter and family live in Tokyo; my brother and family in Rural Japan. Their lockdown was very soft-- encouragement and advice not mandatory draconian laws.
They continue to exercise extreme caution. If you are going to get a flight in, you need a negative covid test before boarding the flight, another one after landing and two or quarantine.
But they have about 40% of the U.S. population on an island nation the size of Montana and haven't even passed 10,000 covid deaths. Of course, they have a stricter way of counting in the the primary COD must be covid, not some peripheral factor. If they used the Fauci standard, it could be 10 times higher.