They have been doing it since forever... I'll always remember my dad telling me about "duck & cover" drills for elementary school kids to hide under desks incase of a nuclear bomb!
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"Crisis is the perpetual cry of the tyrant."
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken
Yes! Funny, they just quoted this 2 mins ago on the podcast I'm listening to - presbycast, "prepping for thanksgiving conversations"