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Fearmongering Rampant
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I cannot understand how to upload an image to this.  I wanted to post a screencap of one of the most popular and well-used news sites and highlight their headlines TODAY to show how using fear is gripping our minds and controlling all of us to be primordial and exponentially paranoid.

These are the headlines I wanted to critique.  You see words like "warns" and "stranded" and "chaos" that's just a small example.  I only picked out there.  Every headline has some provocative thing in it.  But taken together, it's all meant to cause PROVOCATION not peace of mind.  It's there to cause clutching-of-pearls, gasping-of-breath.  You have reports of people calling 911 on the coughing, rural town in chaos, lung scans of the young are "terrifying".  Even a vague headline about "tempers" another to cause a "AM I TYPE A???" and someone else is bitter that their care is less than that of a prisoner.

This headline composition has no purpose but to ALERT, to STOKE FEAR AND TREPIDATION, to DRIVE ADRENALINE, to cause to revert to primal levels of being afraid.

Mnuchin warns jobless rate could hit 20%
Majority with virus walking around undetected
18 months of social distancing?
Stranded travelers struggle to get home
Can feds order national quarantine?
New York bar, restaurant owners could be JAILED is break lockdown
911 calls about neighbors coughing
Upended rural town in chaos
Doctor: lung scans of young nothing sort of terrifying
Tempers fray in USA
People with type A blood more likely to catch?
White house calls on military to boost medical response
Navy acting hospital ships
Soldier in quarantine: "prisoners get better care"
Best and worst death toll scenarios
SICK MAP

SICK MAP?  So, we need to know there's a map we can go look at...... where we can see SICK and where it is.  Is it near us?  Let's go examine the bubbles to see it glopping toward us like The Blob.  IT'S COMING!  We can't stop it.  We're gonna die.

It helps no one.

My favorite in this list MAYBE........ "Best and worst death toll scenarios".  That one makes me to giggle.  Let's click it to ruminate the most number of the dead and the least.  When I go to Vegas, I like to put AAAAAAAALLLLLLL my money on both red and black and watch the dial spin.  Let's get in the middle of it and kick back that bet.

50% odds are the best, baby
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Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-17-2020, 09:54 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Bob Butler 54 - 03-17-2020, 10:05 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by sbarrera - 03-17-2020, 10:54 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-18-2020, 12:12 AM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-18-2020, 01:16 AM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Eric the Green - 03-18-2020, 01:04 AM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by JDG 66 - 03-18-2020, 11:00 AM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-18-2020, 06:02 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Eric the Green - 03-24-2020, 06:09 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by beechnut79 - 03-24-2020, 10:30 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Eric the Green - 03-24-2020, 11:45 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by David Horn - 03-25-2020, 12:11 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-25-2020, 08:15 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by beechnut79 - 03-25-2020, 09:36 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Eric the Green - 03-26-2020, 01:14 AM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Bob Butler 54 - 03-24-2020, 06:29 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by TheNomad - 03-24-2020, 09:03 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by Bob Butler 54 - 03-24-2020, 10:00 PM
RE: Fearmongering Rampant - by pbrower2a - 03-29-2020, 11:48 AM

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