DOUBLE TROUBLE: Using Terrorism Alert Levels for Covid

Summary: Cities and countries across the globe are creating color-coded threat level warning systems for Covid-19, triggering haunting memories of 9/11. It’s ironic that they are copying something learned to combat carnage from terrorism, while terrorists are now learning to copy a bio-agent like Coronavirus — a perfect tool for destruction of the West. They’re seeing how bioterrorism is much more effective than ramming or knifing attacks, or even suicide bombs to bring societies to their knees. First, we look back at the Homeland Security Advisory System that was created because of 9/11, with its 5 levels of risk of terrorist attacks, from red indicating severe risk to green indicating low risk. It was not only meant to warn American citizens, but also governmental agencies, airports and so on. The color codes were a good, clear system that works in emergencies when people are too panicked to start trying to figure out murky details. It’s no wonder then that places from Dallas, Texas to the UK, have now instituted color-coded systems to warn of the risk of Coronavirus. We look at each of these and the social media criticism they’re getting because people are fed up with being told what to do and because their memories of 9/11 are being triggered.