One explanation for this is typically if there’s a danger that people in charge are inadequately informing the public about, it’s likely a case of elite panic – where people in power typically prioritize their own position in the status quo, and prioritize keeping the public calm so that we won’t upset the apple cart, and these are priorities that are, for them, ahead of our safety, or even their own in many cases. And if anything at all, that’s all that’s going on behind the scenes. Nobody is cooking up ways to help us behind the scenes so we don’t have to worry. Anyone who is trying to help would be giving people information to facilitate us saving ourselves. Those would be the people showing true leadership, and they, perhaps paradoxically, are scarce to find in the realm of people with power. It’s an age old problem for sure.
