The last 2 decades have fetishized fear and terror. After 20 years of paranoia-laden zombie movies and books and TV and video games and fetishizing post-apocalyptic worlds and media where the good-guys' team can't decide where to go to lunch without infighting resulting in at least 2 casualties, the American public (and much of the world, honestly) don't know what to do if they're not quivering in utter terror at something.
Then they gave them something to be afraid of, and everyone took to it like a shot of heroin in the middle of withdrawl.
I’m still shocked by the current state of paranoia over the Wuflu.
The last 2 decades have fetishized fear and terror. After 20 years of paranoia-laden zombie movies and books and TV and video games and fetishizing post-apocalyptic worlds and media where the good-guys' team can't decide where to go to lunch without infighting resulting in at least 2 casualties, the American public (and much of the world, honestly) don't know what to do if they're not quivering in utter terror at something.
Then they gave them something to be afraid of, and everyone took to it like a shot of heroin in the middle of withdrawl.