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It won't be over until we stop caring, accept the risk, and move on with our statistically slightly shorter lives.


Yup. This thing really destroyed peoples ability to assess risk. I make no embellishments when I say a good swath of people got some screws knocked loose in their head because of this stuff. Some of the smartest most level headed people went right off the deep end and will never be the same again.

There is a shadow pandemic of untreated, unacknowledged mental illness caused by the non stop fearmongering.




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