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Apocalypse Fatigue: Why Won't At-Risk Boomers Panic About the Wuhan Virus?
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| 3-19-20
| Buck Throckmorton
Posted on 03/19/2020 5:18:25 PM PDT by skimbell
In the past week, a story that keeps getting written and re-written by young journalists is the stubborn refusal of older Americans to panic about the Wuhan Virus. Pretty much every story reads: Why is it that a healthy young American like me - in the demographic most likely to survive Coronavirus is panicking
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15; 15days; 15daystostopthespred; bloggers; hysteria; media; panic; snowflakes
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To: skimbell
"Apocalypse Fatigue"
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And it ain't even here - yet:
"Coronavirus: 'They call it the apocalypse' - inside Italy's hardest-hit hospital" Masked, gloved and in a hazmat suit, my team and I are led through corridors full of gasping people who look terribly ill.
I ask what ward I am in.
"This isn't really a ward, it's a waiting room, we just have to use every bit of space," my guide, Vanna Toninelli, head of the hospital press office tells me.
The medical teams are fighting a war here and they are losing.
We have all heard what has been going on here, but no journalist has been allowed in here to see it, until now.
It's crippling - here they call it the apocalypse.
Bergamo wanted us to see this, as I have said, and they want to send a simple message: "Get ready".
To: metmom
I’m sorry, I meant that as a good thing!
My third grade coat room was cool. I didn’t have one in first or second. You could enter from front or back of room.
The school was built around 1920.
It just tells me their was much more “class” back then.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:12:21 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: Jamestown1630; Eleutheria5
'radical hippies get tired of their revolution and go to work on Wall Street Interesting tidbit ... this was the exact sentiment behind the lines in Don Henleys classic The Boys Of Summer Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said: Dont look back; you can never look back.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:12:28 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
To: All
Boomers will panic if the Rolling Stones come down with it.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:12:50 PM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
("These measures are voluntary, unless you choose to do otherwise. Then we can enforce them." (okay))
To: RummyChick
I’ve disagreed with you on some issues - I think you’ve identified me as one of your ‘stalkers’.
But I agree with you on this. If people have masks, they should use them. The idea that they won’t protect you is nuts. They will certainly protect us to some extent, and they will especially protect the most vulnerable better than going without will.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:14:09 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Eleutheria5
The nursing home will never take me alive. Roger that, FRiend .. saving the last one for me.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:14:33 PM PDT
by
tomkat
( kypd foks - there's more to this fustercluck than we know)
To: Paladin2
I’ve been eyeballing a Mossberg 464 SPX and suddenly they’re unobtanium. Look it up, you’ll either shriek “blasphemy!” Or think, hmmm, that has possibilities.
To: Eleutheria5
They weren’t on/in Iron Lungs.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:16:25 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Alberta's Child
89
posted on
03/19/2020 6:16:31 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: outofsalt
(thanks, needed that !)
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:16:48 PM PDT
by
tomkat
( kypd foks - there's more to this fustercluck than we know)
To: Peter ODonnell
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:17:09 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
To: Jamestown1630
If you only have a surgical mask wrap a scarf around it your head for another layer of protection.
People are making masks. Some are even adding filters to them.
To: RummyChick
Well, I’m a ‘prepper’, so...
If this carries on for too long, I’ll take your advice.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:19:37 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Disambiguator
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: skimbell
There have been a lot of Chicken Littles and Boys Who Cried Wolf in my life. And I’m only in my mid-50s!
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:23:46 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: skimbell
Because you are boring us.
Not a boomer but the 24 hour "running around screaming" thing that the media and political class is indulging in is wearing a bit thin.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:24:28 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
To: skimbell
Because we are all going to die.
Panic if you are going to meet death without being in Christ. That is worthy of panic for those without Christ - and should cause one to repent and to seek the Lord with all their heart while they are on this side of the grave.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:26:29 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: 2111USMC
Well, I did my 4 miles of uphill walking—through 8-foot snowdrifts!!! :-D ;-)
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:27:22 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Eleutheria5
Agree, we can smell the Bullshyte at a much further distance and not as immature mentally as the youngsters who want to be “in” with the latest buzz
BY and large folks my age look at this and say Yeah, sure...
If it is my time then hey let’s go, till then I am gonna use common sense and after all I have already survived I am not scared in the least
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:28:53 PM PDT
by
100American
(Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
To: SanchoP
'That's not old,that's already dead.'They make a little blue pill for that now.
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posted on
03/19/2020 6:29:35 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Buck-buck-buck-buuuuuck....Chicken-mannnn! (He's everywhere! He's everywhere!))
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