I can't believe the downright disregard for even thinking about preparing for an emergency situation.
World coming to an end
As I See It
By Jerry Perella
"We have become a nation of paranoid, panic-stricken worriers, and it?s mostly the media?s fault. If there is nothing to fear, they manufacture it, droning on and on about ?possible? future mishaps.
True enough, we have reality-based things to certainly cause us alarm, but quite a bit of our news reports are ?what if? scenarios, designed to send us running helter-skelter.
Remember the infamous Y2K scare? The ?sky is falling? mentality had people fighting over food in grocery stores, stocking-up on bottled water, filling-up gas cans, buying generators, and loading-up on ammo. Jan. 1, 2000, came in with a whimper and not one single plane crashed because of the computer-controlled air traffic regulators.
There?s probably still people eating overstocked canned goods from that little scare. And how about this bird flu pandemic? People are running out and trying to get vaccines despite the fact that their fears are for the most part unfounded...." (not worth pasting in the rest of the article.)
World coming to an end
As I See It
By Jerry Perella
"We have become a nation of paranoid, panic-stricken worriers, and it?s mostly the media?s fault. If there is nothing to fear, they manufacture it, droning on and on about ?possible? future mishaps.
True enough, we have reality-based things to certainly cause us alarm, but quite a bit of our news reports are ?what if? scenarios, designed to send us running helter-skelter.
Remember the infamous Y2K scare? The ?sky is falling? mentality had people fighting over food in grocery stores, stocking-up on bottled water, filling-up gas cans, buying generators, and loading-up on ammo. Jan. 1, 2000, came in with a whimper and not one single plane crashed because of the computer-controlled air traffic regulators.
There?s probably still people eating overstocked canned goods from that little scare. And how about this bird flu pandemic? People are running out and trying to get vaccines despite the fact that their fears are for the most part unfounded...." (not worth pasting in the rest of the article.)
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