Tornadoes

[Cynical Ninja]

As I said, there are frequent drills and procedures for tornado safety but 1) this was one big motherfucker that no amount of hiding under the desk will protect you from, and 2) this is America where poor and non-caucasian people are more or less expendable. Hell, we convinced an entire generation that "duck and cover" would protect them from nuclear bombs, and now we are busy convincing them that GMO food is good but universal free health care is bad. We're pretty fucked up in our heads over here.

We had similar public information films during the height of the cold war in the UK as well. The almost iconic “when you hear the air attack warning you and your family must take cover”. It didn't offer much more than telling you to cover your windows with duct tape and pray you weren't too close to one of the Soviet targets.

I've never understood the vociferous resistance some Americans seem to have against universal health care though that's always baffled me.