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Tornado conspiracy
(lemmy.world)
As context, around 10 tornadoes touched down in Chicagoland last night... OR SO THEY SAY
This is just normal people being dumb, for a lot of people they can't look beyond their own experience and think of the bigger picture.
I've had someone tell me storm warnings were dumb and should be abolished because they rode their bike to work during a storm warning. It's just a bit of rain and wind they said, it's just fear mongering, people can use their own judgement. About 20kms from where they live someone was killed due to the storm.
"You don't need to look both ways when crossing the street! I've never done it, and I've never been hit!"
It takes an extraordinary false sense of intellectual superiority to willingly ignore a known lethal danger just to spite the feds. That's not normal, and it goes way beyond stupid.
"I've never been mauled to death by a bear, all these warnings are just fearmongering!"
I don't know, I'd say the COVID booster part elevates it from normal stupid to crazy.
I had a coworker argue that the government shouldn't be able to issue emergency alerts to cell phones because it induces panic
And the same people will argue that the person being killed is 100% at fault because there was a warning after all!