Two Takes on Scary Scenarios

I don’t know if it’ll happen again. The only thing that I would suggest to you is that one procedure that people use now to make fear is they say, “I don’t know the answer, so let’s all be afraid.” Another way to do it is to say, “I don’t know the answer, so let’s stay calm and try to find the answer.” Michael Chrichton, talking about bird flu. Very pertinent to many scary scenarios. The first sells newspapers and frightens people, the second gives people hope.