You is me referring to people in general, its not specifically about "you you" just a figure of speech.
And no its not about people being below anyone, its about sheer stupidity. We are all mad about how the things effect us but we don't see that on a broader scale its TOO late to do anything else. Everyone messed up the minute they took the virus as a joke and only something that would effect China.
People - generally - took it as a joke because the GOVERNMENT (specifically the president) told them it was a joke, told them they were safe, told them it was a socialist plot blah blah blah. They acted accordingly to the risk assessment they were given. Who’s voice do you think got the most airtime? The president or the doctors? Even the WHO failed to call it a pandemic until it was too late.
I never took it as a joke because I had a very bad gut feeling about it from the beginning. I sought out the information constantly and consistently. Tracked the numbers. People are busy - they work, have kids, have lives etc. How many people do you think are doing that kind of thing independently? When their government is on tv reassuring them and they trust their government generally?
Ive belonged to prepping communities.. and specifically liberal prepping communities that can’t stand trump for some time. So nothing he says is trusted there so everyone was on high alert since day one. I doubt this even played out that way in regular prepping groups tbh.
But assuming this is all because of stupidity is just as stupid as buying 500 roles of toilet paper. The wrong behaviors are being differentially reinforced right now on a societal level. Coincidentally trump also axed the behavioral science division of the federal government alongside the pandemic response teams..
