Matt Orfalea takes us back to March 2020:
Across the media landscape, the already hyperbolic phrase was often cut short to “Nobody is safe.”
“Nobody is safe.” – Chris Cuomo, CNN (10/23/20)
“Nobody is safe.” – Rob Scmitt, Fox News (3/30/20)
“This virus is raging everywhere and no one is safe” – Senator Bob Casey, CNN (11/20/20)
By August 2021, NPR’s Tamara Keith told CBS News that the phrase had “almost become cliche”.
While the world was told “Nobody is safe from COVID-19” the actual infection fatality rate (IFR) was less than 0.5%. In other words, the natural immune systems of approximately 99.5% would defeat the original Alpha COVID variant without a vaccine. For children, the risk of dying is 0.0%. But the constant “Nobody is safe” mantras led citizens to believe the virus was more deadly than it actually was, spreading a man-made pandemic: a hyperpolarizing pandemic of fear.
