On Sunday, October 30, 1938, Orson Welles presented War of the Worlds as a prime-time radio show. Though the show was introduced as a fictional story, many listeners missed the introduction and tuned in to hear that Martians had landed, killed 7000 National Guardsman, and were attacking cities like New York, Chicago, and St. Louis.



About one million Americans believed the story was real. They went searching for gas masks, evacuated some large cities, and thought the end of the world was at hand.



They acted on emotion before checking the facts. You could say they were emotionally hijacked.



It's not unlike many people today.



With the media’s help, many people are afraid of encountering an unmasked human being or getting closer than six feet from someone who is masked. They cleanse themselves with hand sanitizer multiple times per day. Some even wear rubber gloves to open their mail or drive their car.



The talking heads of Mainstream Media and far-left politicians have terrified people as well as Orson Welles did in 1938.



Though there is plenty of scientific data to suggest we need not fear the virus, those facts and the people who present them get censored and canceled to avoid their points of view from negating the narrative.



Some might say it's part of a sinister plan. By causing people to live in fear, they'll be more willing to give up their freedoms. Maybe many in the media and Democrat politicians are just more afraid, and they've projected that fear on the public. Then again, perhaps we've wandered down a path of politics, media, and technology that's led us to become more afraid of something like COVID-19 than we would have been decades prior.





Why are so many people so scared?



Unless Jesus comes back, we all have a 100% chance of dying at some point. For those who know that this life is not the end, death isn’t so scary.



We'd all like to experience life as long as possible and spend more time with our friends and family, but we know that believers get something even better after this life.



However, as I pointed out in my article A Call to Christians to Stand Up for What's Good and Against What's Evil, we've seen an abrupt decrease in Christians across America and an equal rise in people who do not identify with any religion or faith. If you believe the end of your life is the end, the idea of dying could be terrifying.



But there is something more to the fact that so many people have jumped on the fear bandwagon without first checking if it was an appropriate response.



A scared minority makes a scared majority.



We live in the country and have many deer visit our backyard. A half dozen could be eating from the feeder together, but if just one gets spooked and runs, the others run with it. The fear of one spreads to the group.



Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered that once 10 percent of the population adopts an idea, it spreads like a California wildfire across the entire population. If less than 10 percent hold a belief, nothing happens.



The population of the United States is about 332 million. If two-thirds of the people are adults, that's about 220 million people. So, you'd need about 22 million people to get scared of a virus for the majority of people to get scared.



Through social media and television influences, it's easier to fake people into fear than you might realize.



Read also: Unmasked. Unmuzzled. Unvaccinated. Unafraid.



Fear porn



Since the spring of 2020, Mainstream Media has been sensationalizing stories and headlines to draw viewers and readers.



They used footage from Italy to make it appear that a hospital in New York was overwhelmed in chaos. They had hospital staff line up outside a hospital to make it appear people were waiting in long lines to get tested.



They set up tents outside hospitals to make it look like the hospitals were overwhelmed. 



They cherry-picked nurses and doctors who described individual cases...