ScareMongering - Do People get a kick out of it or what?

MaureensFry

I have read some absolute drivel on boards the last two months.

Are people scare mongering on purpose or are they just thick?

You'd swear we are never going to back to normal, Everything is fecked and we are all going to be isolated for the next five years.

I have never read so much BS that people actually think in their own heads is whats going to happen.

I'd advise anyone not to listen to this drivel and get your information from proper websites.

Feisar

Yea but do you have the fry on?

MaureensFry

Feisar wrote: »

Yea but do you have the fry on?

I've had 45 pints.

Feisar

MaureensFry wrote: »

I've had 45 pints.

Sink the last three and finish off the second slab.

Oops!

A combination of alot of reasons you've mentioned... Some get a kick from winding others up, others already have themselves so wound up they are winding others up as bad as themselves.... People need to calm the **** down, i remember a time when social media used to be fun.

Feisar

As to scaremongering I think with most people it's unintentional. Some people can be a bit sensationalist. Also bad news always travels quicker. Then there are the prophet of doom types. My parents have a neighbor and the first words out of his mouth are always about who's dead/dying/sick.

B.A._Baracus

I'm not ignorant. I'm not up myself but wipe your a*s with people's opinions. In life. On the internet. Anywhere.

Because the amount of Shi*e people say is unreal when you stop and listen.

beamoflight

Unfortunately, not everyone has the intelligence to understand the danger of something like COVID-19 e.g. a person that wedges themselves between people in a queue while others are abiding the 2 meter rule and there are signs everywhere explaining the rules!

DANGER: Don't push the RED Button ... then they push it.

Scaremongering is the alternative that works best for everyone of all intelligence.:)

Dr. Bre

A lot of people on boards saying this is the new norm and so on. Like they getting some kick out of it

Plumbthedepths

Boards is full of fearmongerers and wind up merchants and not forgetting a plethora of Trolls. The Covid threads are rife with them.

Quantum Erasure

a lot of people seem to revel in their ignorance, or naivety, too. one swallow doesn't make a summer, as they say...

Hoop66

There's two strains, it seems to me.

Firstly there's the simply stupid/attention seekers who either repeat what they've heard without any regard to the source. Example - an FB friend sharing videos of that wan on the northside with the "radiation meter" giving it "ah heyor, it's 36, that's deadly to humans".

Then there are those whose living depends on the clicks and retweets, your GO'Ds, your Katie Hopkins. They will just amplify any nonsense, no matter how dangerous, for the clicks.

Blitzkrieger

MaureensFry wrote: »

Are people scare mongering on purpose or are they just thick?

You'd think it'd be crazy in this day and age to suggest that some of them are agents of foreign governments and actively want to kill people, but....

JohnnyFlash

Scaremongering used to be better, especially if it related to urban legends. Satanic pedo murder cults, razor blades lodged in apples, killer in the backseat etc.

LiquidZeb

Its gone beyond ****ing ridiculous. Last night people were second guessing the Austrian, Danish and other governments, glaxosmithkline, Johnson and Johnson and the IMF to name a few.

Simple fact of the matter is the people making these decisions and calling the shots in these respective organizations are much smarter than you, me or anyone on this website.

I don't mean that in an insulting way but I'd take anything I read here with a big helping of salt.

tipptom

Don't read the Independent if you want to avoid scaremongering.

Why would someone keep a job in Irelands most popular newspaper that headlines that there are "THOUSANDS of British cars,Campervans and caravans getting of the ferries" last weekend when in fact there was 2-3 British cars on each one with Irish people returning home and absolutely no consequences to either the so called journalist or the Editor.

Why should ordinary people bother their ar*se checking facts while trying a bit of scaremongering.

pgj2015

I think a lot of it is from people who have crap lives and they are determined that everyone else will fell as miserable as themselves so they try to scare everyone and they probably do want a lockdown for the next 2 years so everyone will have a $hit life like theirs.

seamus

Misery loves company

freshpopcorn

Sometimes people tend to pick up off there parents. I know if I ask my other who the hyper parents were out of my class and my siblings class were she'd say X,Y,etc and if you know there children or just see there social media pages they are the same.

Kylta

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

a lot of people seem to revel in their ignorance, or naivety, too. one swallow doesn't make a summer, as they say...

No but one swallow makes a tasty little snack

Kylta

seamus wrote: »

Misery loves company

Not exactly true, misery doesn't like my aunt sally.

FFVII

Rte has nothing but bad news...most news is bad.

Dunno how it came to be like this but....

Kylta

Can I ask where or what threads are the scaremongering on?

Plumbthedepths

Kylta wrote: »

Can I ask where or what threads are the scaremongering on?

Try the Covid threads.

Kylta

FFVII wrote: »

Rte has nothing but bad news...most news is bad.

Dunno how it came to be like this but....

Its the same on all media, crime, murder, covid-364, sells. Ive never heard the news start with 'A MAN IN A CORK VILLAGE HAS DONE THE DAILY SHOPPING FOR TWO ELDERLY SISTER.' You won't see that in the headlines of a newspaper either. What you'd see quicker is ''GANGSTER BUYS VILLA IN SPAIN' unfortunately bad news sells.

Laois_Man

It's not the scaremongering that gets me. Some people believe what they're saying and nobody know for real how long all of this is gonna go on or how many will die

What does get me though, is the effort some people go to towards undermining our government, the HSE top brass or anyone else trying to deal with the current situation. They're doing terribly badly, so and so in that other country is making our lot look like twats! The lockdown is too severe / not severe enough etc etc. :rolleyes:

GooglePlus

Scare mongering is catching on everywhere and it's only a matter of time before it consumes you and everyone you love.

freshpopcorn

FFVII wrote: »

Rte has nothing but bad news...most news is bad.

Dunno how it came to be like this but....

I do think Ryan Tubridy has a fetish for it!

Kylta

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Try the Covid threads.

Thank you for that bit of info.
Truth be told ive no interest in anything covid at the moment,

pgj2015

Kylta wrote: »

Thank you for that bit of info.
Truth be told ive no interest in anything covid at the moment,

you are better off, them threads are poison.