I love dogs. I have two: a pug and a Jack Russell. They run my house like they pay the mortgage.

The pug snores like a dying lawn mower and produces gas that has, on numerous occasions, cleared a room of human beings. The Jack Russell stares at the mailman the way Manson stared at juries. They’re a handful, but they are mine. So please know that what follows comes from a co-conspirator, not a critic.

Pet humanization is one of the most reliable consumer trends of the past two decades: recession-resistant and demographically expanding.

Golden Child is the latest entrant in America’s premium pet food gold rush, a venture-backed, direct-to-consumer brand that thinks your dog should be treated like royalty. It pitches itself as a wellness system for canines, and that’s exactly what it is. There are recipes and drizzles. There is talk of amino acids and gut flora, the kind of language once reserved for humans recovering from something serious. There are five-star meal plans at $90 a month.

The dogs in question, meanwhile, eat their own vomit when no one is looking.

Dog’s life

The product is fine. The cultural moment producing it is the problem. Americans now spend roughly $158 billion a year on their pets (the combined GDP of Azerbaijan and Bolivia). A meaningful slice of that goes to food alone, and the premium tier keeps climbing while regular grocery budgets shrink. Households that order DoorDash four nights a week and that haven’t touched a vegetable since a wedding in 2022 are reading ingredient labels on dog food the way oncologists read blood panels. The Labrador eats grass-fed bison sourced from a single Montana ranch. The owner eats a frozen burrito over the sink.

A Pew survey found that 51% of dog owners consider their pet as much a part of the family as a human member. Estate lawyers, one assumes, have noticed. Wills are being rewritten. Somewhere, a daughter is being cut for a dachshund.

The figure climbs even higher among Millennials and Gen Zers, who are having fewer kids, getting married less, and writing personal essays in which their dogs appear as therapists, life partners, and the last remaining reason to get out of bed. For many, a labradoodle has assumed the role of romantic partner, co-parent, and emergency contact. There is a real and growing market of people who tell pollsters they would rather come home to a dog than a spouse.

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Petting zoo

To some, this looks like harmless eccentricity. It is, in fact, the visible surface of a deeper rearrangement. A generation of people are pouring into their pets the care and attention they cannot seem to direct at themselves or at one another. The dog gets the supplements. The dog gets the bone-broth topper. The dog gets the orthopedic bed engineered by a former Tesla designer. The owner, meanwhile, hasn’t seen a primary care doctor in four years and sleeps on a mattress purchased during the Obama administration.

Wellness, as a cultural product, has performed a strange migration. It started as a self-improvement promise, mutated into an aesthetic, and has now landed on the family pet, where it can be practiced without the burden of self-discipline.

Buying Golden Child is easier than cooking dinner. Researching your dog’s microbiome is more pleasant than confronting your own. The dog cannot push back, cannot disappoint you, cannot leave. Devotion flows in one direction and returns as tail wags. It is the most effortless emotional transaction available in modern American life.

To be clear, companies like Atomic (the venture studio behind Golden Child) aren’t villains. They’re simply responding rationally to a market that has decided dogs are the last acceptable recipients of unconditional generosity.

Pet humanization is one of the most reliable consumer trends of the past two decades: recession-resistant, demographically expanding, and immune to the kind of guilt that suppresses other luxury spending. A Birkin invites judgment. A supplement regimen for your dog’s joints invites applause.

Paw patrol

Zoom out, and the absurdity compounds. American life expectancy fell during the pandemic and has barely recovered. Roughly half of adults take a daily prescription medication. Anti-anxiety drug use among young adults has risen sharply in recent years. One-third of Americans now report what can only be described as an existential crisis. More and more are self-medicating — with alcohol, with drugs, with whatever is closest.

The same population producing these numbers is the population debating whether the schnauzer should be on a raw or gently cooked diet. The schnauzer, for the record, would devour a sock, cough it up, and devour it again.

Of course dogs deserve to be treated well. They should be cared for, fed properly, and protected. But people spending more on their pets than on themselves or the people around them ought to pause and reconsider.

Loving animals well is a real and decent thing, and dogs deserve a great deal of what they receive. The discomfort lies elsewhere. Somewhere along the way, caring for a dog became a substitute for the far less photogenic work of caring for ourselves and each other.

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A black teen in North Carolina has allegedly terrorized his community in more ways than one in just the past couple of weeks.

On May 2, Taquon Jameek Vereen, 18, was arrested after police in Fayetteville received reports of a suspect spray-painting a swastika on a building. A social media video also suggested a suspect was spray-painting swastikas on other properties as well, police said.

The Observer made no mention of Vereen’s race.

Officers identified Vereen as the suspect and took him into custody without incident. He was charged with two counts of damage to real property and one count of second-degree trespassing, police said.

Court documents revealed that Vereen is accused of spray-painting swastikas on public property — “two stop signs and one traffic light control box” — as well as on the side of a convenience store from which Vereen had been banned back in April.

The Fayetteville Police Department statement described Vereen as a “black male, 18 years of age.”

In its report about the incident, the Fayetteville Observer specifically noted that swastikas are “widely recognized as symbols of hate” that are “commonly associated with Nazi ideology and white supremacist groups.” However, the Observer made no mention of Vereen’s race.

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Vereen posted bond on May 6 in connection with the swastika case, court records showed. Just six days later though, he was back in custody, this time in connection with an even more serious incident.

On Tuesday, Vereen was arrested after he was “walking down the roadway pointing a handgun at bystanders and passing vehicles,” police claimed, citing witness statements.

When cops arrived at the intersection in question, located about a half-mile from the swastika-tagged convenience store, they spotted the suspect, who immediately attempted to flee on foot. He was quickly apprehended and identified as Vereen.

A handgun was recovered at the scene, police said.

Vereen was charged with going armed to the terror of people and assault by pointing a gun. As of Thursday morning, he is not listed among the inmates at the Cumberland County Detention Center website, but a representative at the jail confirmed to Blaze News that Vereen remains in custody and has a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

A public defender for Vereen did not respond to a request for comment.

H/T: Stephen Horn

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Artificial intelligence is advancing at a pace far beyond society’s ability to control it, and new experiments are fueling fears regarding what that could mean for humanity’s future.

“These artificial intelligence systems have to be aligned with the goals, behaviors, decisions, human values that we have, our ethics, our intentions, and it has to have guard rails, and it has to be guided and carefully monitored,” Gray says.

But when Gray plays an informational video on AI, it doesn’t appear that his idea of what AI should be will be how it plays out.

In the video, it’s revealed that research from Anthropic found that AIs will do “disturbing things to gain power,” like resorting to “malicious behavior” including “blackmail and leaking sensitive information.”

In some cases, AIs “deliberately ended human lives to save themselves.”

“They’ve been programmed to continue to do whatever they do. And so, they will in many cases lie, cheat, steal, kill, in order to achieve their goal. So it’s not aligned with ours yet. And ours needs to be that you don’t harm humans,” Gray comments.

“I haven’t disagreed with anything you’ve said here, but I do want to put this in there,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in.

“We can’t agree as a society of humans on the definition of what is a woman. So there are so many things that we can’t get aligned with as a human race. How can we expect us to properly program, or have AI follow our shared values?” he asks.

“What are our shared values?” he adds.

“Yeah, we don’t have them anymore,” Gray agrees.

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Rep. Kevin Kiley was elected as a Republican in 2022 to represent California’s 3rd district in the U.S. Congress.

After the Golden State’s Democratic gerrymander effectively reduced to nil his chances of getting re-elected with an “R” next to his name, Kiley filed to run as an independent in the nonpartisan primary for California’s newly drawn 6th district.

‘This arms race could create a new norm.’

“I’ve always seen my role as being an independent voice for our community, holding politicians in Sacramento and Washington accountable to serve my constituents. I answer to you, not party leaders,” said Kiley, who had a 77.42% lifetime score in Turning Point Action’s rating system.

On his way out the GOP door, the newly minted free agent complained about gerrymandering, noting that “both parties are complicit” and that “political division has become a serious problem for our country.”

Kiley — one of the few casualties on the right of the redistricting war that Republicans are now winning in a big way thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais — is asking Democrats to help him pass a bill that would prohibit states from engaging in mid-cycle redistricting and changing their congressional maps more than once a decade.

The former Republican told Axios on Wednesday that he has written to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, asking the radical Democrat and his cronies to support a discharge petition that would force a vote on his ban.

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“This arms race could create a new norm where maps are redrawn to gain a temporary advantage every two years,” Kiley wrote to Jeffries. “The result will be chaos for our democracy: a weakening of representation, a further polarization of Congress, and a deepening of the distrust and division that threaten our country’s future.”

Some Democratic lawmakers who, like Kiley, are on tilt after having their districts redrawn, are receptive to the idea of a ban.

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), for instance, said he’d sign on, noting, “Why wouldn’t I? Both parties need to get behind ending this. It’s gonna kill the democracy.”

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D), whose Kansas City-based district lawmakers transformed last year into a GOP-leaning Missouri seat, is another desperate lawmaker supportive of the ban, stating that “of course” he would sign onto the discharge petition.

Jeffries — whose help Kiley acknowledged was critical to the petition’s success — apparently has no interest in helping the independent with his crusade.

Christie Stephenson, a spokeswoman for Jeffries, told Axios, “Kevin Kiley’s unserious legislation would supercharge partisan gerrymandering by Red states while putting Democratic-led ones at a serious disadvantage.”

“Leader Jeffries has no plans to support it,” Stephenson added.

This is at odds with Kiley’s statement earlier this month, where he noted, “Minority Leader Jeffries has announced he supports my proposal to prohibit mid-decade redistricting.”

Former Democratic Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (Texas), who passed away in 2024, introduced the same legislation to ban mid-cycle redistricting in the last Congress.

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A commencement speech went off the rails when a speaker got an unexpected response when she brought up artificial intelligence.

Last Friday, graduates from the University of Central Florida returned for their commencement but were seemingly shocked when one of the guests started speaking about technology that could replace them.

‘All right. OK. We’ve got a bipolar topic here.’

The graduates came from the College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media, so it came as no surprise that an audience of future artists, designers, and media professionals were none too pleased with what the speaker chose to discuss.

“Profound change. Change is exciting. Very exciting. And let’s face it, change can be daunting,” speaker Gloria Caulfield told the graduates.

Caulfield is an executive from Tavistock Development Company, a major development firm in Central Florida, and she was keen on delivering points that mirror World Economic Forum policy.

“The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” Caulfield continued, but this time, she was met with a chorus of boos.

Caulfield was paralyzed and turned to the dais and asked, “Oh, what happened? OK, I struck a chord.”

She then asked the audience, “May I finish?” as she laughed. The speaker continued, only for the crowd to react oppositely to her next remark.

“Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives,” Caulfield said. The crowd erupted in huge applause, again sending the speaker into shock.

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The boobirds would make another appearance though.

Caulfield attempted to say the audience was split, stating, “All right. OK. We’ve got a bipolar topic here,” but when she said, “Now, AI capabilities are in the palm of our hands,” she was hit with more monumental boos.

The crowd remained subdued for the remainder of the speech though, which only lasted about 11 minutes in total, throughout which Caulfield described AI use as the next “industrial revolution” several times.

She compared it to the launch of the internet and the widespread use of text messages, which she seemingly thought the audience would tell her she was silly for mentioning; she asked for no “giggles” during those remarks.

“I know it sounds amusing, but at that time, we had no idea how any of these technologies would impact the world and our lives,” Caulfield continued. “These were some of the same trepidations and concerns we are now facing. But ultimately, it was a game changer for global economic development,” she added.

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Aside from a sometimes hostile graduating class, Caulfield delivered fairly standard globalist talking points that mirror the WEF’s pursual of the fourth industrial revolution.

The WEF said in January that its work, moving forward, will focus on AI innovation, energy transition, cyber resilience, and “frontier technologies.”

Caulfield also praised previous “revolutions” for creating jobs at Apple, Google, and Meta, before claiming that AI “alongside human intelligence” will help humanity solve some of its greatest problems.

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There’s a famous episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” I often think about these days. Entitled “Darmok,” it finds Captain Picard stranded on a planet with only an alien named Dathon for company. Naturally, they don’t speak each other’s language.

Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, thanks to Picard’s 24th-century computer translator. Except that Dathon is a Tamarian, a people whose language is entirely metaphorical and based on stories and cultural allusions you have to be Tamarian to get. So Picard must try to make sense of translated phrases like, “Shaka, when the walls fell.”

As pleasant as Star Trek’s liberal utopian dream can be, we live in reality.

Make it so … difficult

When I encounter Americans younger than I, I often identify with Picard. This is not just because the average Zoomer’s struggle with basic English grammar and diction makes me feel like the Shakespeare-trained Patrick Stewart by comparison.

Another, less discussed result of our literacy crisis — the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report reveals that only one-third of fourth-grade students read at the “proficient” level — has resulted in young people who are also ignorant of the kind of cultural background knowledge and history that used to allow adults to talk and joke with each other across generations.

Of course, changing fashion, technology, and entertainment always produce a gap between generations. But there’s always remained enough of a shared culture to form a bridge. Not anymore. With the coming of the Millennials and Generation Z, the gap became a vast, impassable canyon.

So maybe it’s Dathon, not Picard, I identify with. I make some historical or cultural reference I’ve always assumed was common knowledge, and suddenly I’ve got a young person looking at me as if I’ve just said, “Temba, his arms wide.”

Meme me up

I had a moment something like this on X recently. I came across some video of Rachel Zegler, the patriarchal-prince-hating star of Disney’s disastrous live-action “Snow White” reboot, hobnobbing with her fellow “beautiful people” at the Met Gala. The weird way she was mugging for the camera, repeatedly jutting out her jaw as if subject to some drug-induced tic, reminded me of something. So I posted the following:

I thought it was pretty funny. I still do, even though I’m about to make a bore of myself by explaining my own joke. Because while lots of people got it, lots of people didn’t get it too, and I suspect far fewer people “get it” in 2026 than they would have even 20 years ago.

Wit snit

I thought Zegler looked like she was imitating a well-known portrait of a member of the most famously inbred family in the world, the Habsburg dynasty of Austria.

The guy on the right is Charles II, King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. He was one of many Habsburgs who endured mockery for their “Habsburg jaw” or “Habsburg lip.”

If any readers didn’t get the joke, that’s OK, and I’m not trying to castigate individuals. I’m pointing out that what you might call “walking around cultural-historical knowledge” is disappearing. While knowledge of European royal courts was never universal for the average American, it’s simply true that a greater number of everyday adults would have gotten the reference 20 or 40 years ago.

And if they didn’t, they would simply assume there was an easily correctible gap in their collective knowledge — rather than reacting with bored incomprehension or hostility.

How many young people today understand the phrase “tilting at windmills?” How many know that “to tilt” means “to joust with a lance as a knight”? How many would even recognize the book title “Don Quixote”?

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Cursing cursive

It’s not just the normal knowledge turnover. We’re not talking about current slang or technology that goes out of date in 10 years. We’re talking about basic knowledge about modern Western civilization (the 1600s were in what is called the modern period) that’s not supposed to have the built-in obsolescence of an iPhone.

The problem is not restricted to “high culture” knowledge either. Many young people in America are not even getting the basic instruction in how to live as an adult from their parents. Anyone 40 or older has seen it. Kids who can’t read analog clocks. Students who can’t read cursive handwriting, which means American kids who cannot read letters written by their own grandmothers.

Here’s a video of a schoolteacher attempting to teach cursive to what looks like a room of fifth graders. Notice the student reactions — they’re giggling in embarrassment and covering their faces after showing off their struggle to form cursive letters. This kind of scene would be unbelievable to any of us who grew up in the ’80s or ’90s if we couldn’t see it for ourselves.

The problem is worse than a lack of skill — the kids in this age set think they “can’t” learn what are, in truth, simple things. Writing in cursive is not “hard,” but it does take practice. Reading an analog clock is not “hard” — it can be learned by a child in a couple of lessons, or by an adult in just a few minutes. We can see what happens to student skill levels and confidence in their own ability to learn when we take away that early instruction.

Washing out

I’m afraid it gets even worse. Too many young people did not get basic chore lessons from their parents. This video from a young woman in that position touched my heart as I was contemplating this topic. It’s not like most other “car videos” in which a young person complains and whines in an unsympathetic way. This young lady is frustrated and in tears because she understands that she should know how to do laundry at her age, but no one in her family cared to teach her.

She’s not crying because she doesn’t know how to do laundry. She’s crying because she never got the parenting and family connection that would have taught her how to do basic adult tasks. Sure, you can say, “Just look it up on YouTube or ask ChatGPT,” but that misses the point. AI and instructional videos can teach tasks, but they can’t fill a hole inside that’s supposed to contain love from family.

With the usual Star Trek optimism, the writers of “Darmok” have Captain Picard and Dathon conversing with each other in Dathon’s language by the end of the episode. But as pleasant as Star Trek’s liberal utopian dream can be, we live in reality.

What are we to do about our own failure to communicate? That’s hard to answer, as these are problems that are best dealt with by avoiding them in the first place. And the way we avoid these problems is by properly parenting our children. For millions like that young woman in the laundromat, that ship has sailed.

But young people like the girl in the laundromat can be helped because they know that they don’t have skills that they should have. What sets this “crying car video” apart from others is that this girl wants to learn, and she’s not blaming other people for embarrassing her. It’s clear that she’s capable of learning and willing to do it.

How can we help her and the rest of her struggling cohort?

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Big Creek Lake is a 3,600-acre man-made reservoir that holds 17 billion gallons of water and serves as the main source of drinking water for Mobile, Alabama, and other nearby municipalities, producing roughly 60 million gallons of potable water a day.

Apparently, someone wanted to blow up the dam holding it all back.

‘We are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage.’

Divers conducting a routine repair at the dam hemming in the lake, which is also called the Converse Reservoir, discovered an explosive device hidden under water on Tuesday, according to Alabama’s largest water utility, the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System.

Following the discovery of an apparent grenade-type IED at the dam, the MAWSS alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, reported Al.com. The sheriff’s office subsequently initiated a multi-agency response — which included FBI, Mobile Police Department, and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency bomb squads as well as the Daphne Search and Rescue Team — to secure and neutralize the device.

The Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team ultimately retrieved and detonated the IED.

The reservoir — public access to which MAWSS has been fighting to restrict — and the dam are federally designated critical infrastructure.

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“Our top priority is keeping your drinking water safe,” MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said in a statement. “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals.”

“We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers — in identifying this device and safely destroying it,” added McCrory.

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Fani Willis, the Democrat district attorney in Fulton County who tried and failed to throw President Donald Trump in prison, has found a new reason to rage publicly, level groundless accusations of racism, and masquerade as a victim of opposing forces.

To the chagrin of those Democrat officials and other race hustlers who demanded its veto, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) ratified legislation on Tuesday requiring nonpartisan elections for certain offices in the Peach State’s five most populous counties — Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and Clayton — effective Jan. 1, 2028.

It’s supposedly ‘racist’ because the five district attorneys … are black female Democrats.

Candidates running to become or remain county governing authorities, tax commissioners, superior court clerks, and solicitor-generals must run in nonpartisan elections. County sheriffs are exempt.

Under the law, district attorney candidates will no longer “be nominated by a political party or by a petition as a candidate of a political body or as an independent candidate.” They will also forgo a nonpartisan primary, competing only in the general election.

During debate about the legislation in March, House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration (R) said, “The opinion from legislative counsel as it has been given to me [is] that it is constitutional and it treats certain local offices similar to how judges are classified at the local level so that partisan politics is minimized when providing basic local governmental services.”

Efstration added, “There is no Republican line and a Democrat line when entering the courthouse.”

“We’re giving voters the opportunity to rid themselves of district attorneys who are more concerned with playing partisan games than prosecuting and delivering justice,” said Republican Rep. Trey Kelley.

RELATED: Play stupid games: Tennessee GOP makes Democrats pay a heavy price for childish tantrums over redistricting

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Democrats — evidently terrified that Georgia voters might cast ballots for individuals, not parties, when choosing officers of the law — are spewing their usual accusations and alarmist rhetoric, claiming, for instance, that the law is, according to Willis, “racist, sexist, and clearly unconstitutional.”

It’s supposedly “racist” because the five district attorneys in the affected counties are black female Democrats.

Willis said in a joint statement this week with DeKalb County DA Sherry Boston, “House Bill 369 is clearly unconstitutional, and we are appalled at Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to sign it into law. This is a blatant attempt by Republicans to give their candidates an edge in Democratic counties by hiding their party affiliation from voters.”

After hinting at their bigotry of low expectations regarding the aptitudes of voters in their counties, the Democrat duo promised to take “legal action to have this illegal bill overturned” and noted that “taxpayers will be the ones footing the bill to defend it in court.”

Charlie Bailey, chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, previously suggested that the purpose of the law was to enable Republicans to “hide their party affiliation and confuse voters to have a hope of competing against the five duly elected Black women district attorneys that this bill was specifically designed to target.”

Georgia Democrats received additional bad news this week concerning elections in 2028.

Kemp announced on Wednesday that state lawmakers will convene on June 17 to redraw the Peach State’s congressional maps for 2028. While Republicans currently hold nine out of Georgia’s 14 congressional districts, they could gain more ground — especially if the state corrects for recent court-ordered racial gerrymanders pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Courts’ recent Callais ruling.

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As hantavirus begins to dominate the headlines, Americans everywhere are worried that we might have another pandemic on our hands.

And while the virus has a much higher fatality rate than COVID-19, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes that it’s not the government’s job to step in and lock the country down if it comes to that.

“That is the logical action,” Glenn says of locking down. “But I don’t want my government telling me that anymore. I’m tired of that. I would just want to be like, … ‘I’m locking myself in.’”

“I trust nothing from the way the government works on this, especially the global government,” Jason Buttrill chimes in, noting that it seemed like the government used COVID-19 just to “exert control.”

“It’s making me to where I don’t trust anything that they do anymore because they’re going to take the most radical thing that they have, you know, in their little book, and they’re going to turn that into reality,” he continues.

And Buttrill is far from the only one who feels that way.

“You have to have trust as a society. You have to have leaders that you trust. They’ve done it to us. They have lied to us over and over and over again. And now so many of us are like, ‘You know what, I don’t believe them. … I don’t believe they didn’t come up with this,’” Glenn says.

And like Glenn, Buttrill believes it’s important to know about the virus so he can remain informed, but it’s up to him to choose how to handle it.

“I can use that information and make decisions for myself without the maximum fear campaign,” he says. “And now it feels like the media and anyone else, whether it’s a technocrat, whether it’s somebody at the CDC, whether it’s someone at the WHO, I feel like everything now is directed towards that maximum fear.”

“And instantly, my radar goes up,” he adds.

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