A Harvard psychologist explains the rise in passengers

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getting violent on airplanes and customers abusing retail workers: People have reached 'a boiling point'

"When we're anxious, our lenses are distorted. We tend to magnify or 'catastrophize,'" she said. "Widen your lenses and try to collect more data - that tends to also cool off the brain a little bit."

Asking people to act and think instead of mindlessly reacting and lashing out like a toddler who hasn't the words for what's going in their undeveloped brains. And good luck with that, ya'll!

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That isn't going to happen until mass media stop trying to scare the pants off of their viewers.

[spaniardx]

First off, if these snowflakes are that bloody afraid because of the news they should keep their entitled, cowardly selves the F----- at home and off the planes. Vacations. Are. A. Privilege.

That being said, even if mass media shuts it, doubt that will have much effect since (more than likely) a lot of these donkey fedorasfolks are getting most of their "news" from sketchy not actually alleged new sites on various social media pages.. And, even if those also miraculously shut it as well, there are still enough that are just donkey fedoras entitled prats. Kinda hits me sideways that some nut job with a shoe full of "angry play-doh" gets a much larger chunk of trouble than another nut job with an entitled attitude who decides to throw hands with the flight crew.

And the nut job defense doesn't hold water (not sure it even holds air) because, yeah the current almost two year old dumpster fire has gotten old. Yeah, security lines are way too long and way too slow (so I hear) and such an inconvenience and invasive with the scanning and the shoes off, and the all your stuff in the bin, and the groping by TSA (who, if you look at them wrong might just decide  you need an extra search).

But anyone traveling by air goes through that and nine out of ten behave in a civil manner. Its always that 10^th donkey fedora that makes it unpleasant for everyone else -- like the family whose only "crime" is that their two year old won't keep their mask on and they get tossed.