The media whips up hysteria about the weather or some other “threat”
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All the better to push for more expansive government involvement in our lives. Only it can save us so therefore governments must expand their control over us with every passing “threat”. /sarc
The media and the government are joined at the hip in their mutually beneficial fear mongering.
Right. I may not be remembering correctly, but when I was a kid back in the 60s and 70s, governors didn’t issue travel bans for entire sections of a state or an entire city or marshal law type curfews at the drop of a hat. That seems to be happening more and more as a result of hysterical media predictions relating to weather events.