A New Threat

The silent killer in our midst

Allan Milne Lees
2 min readNov 21, 2023
The deadly chemical that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year

There’s nothing the media likes more than a new threat with which to scare hundreds of millions of ordinary people and thereby boost the value of all-important ad slots. As people are now bored of Covid and covid-like stories, and as school shootings in the USA are now weekly occurrences and therefore also boring, and as Russian atrocities in Ukraine would upset advertisers and so despite their sensation potential can’t be used, and as there’s been no big commercial jet airplane crash for some considerable time (damn those safety regulations!), it’s now essential for the media to create another mass panic because, let’s face it, executive bonus time is drawing close and we really do need to ensure plenty of juicy ad revenues flood in.

So, in the Spirit of Giving that is appropriate for the time of year, I’m going to present what could easily be, if treated in the right way, a suitable scare story with which to terrify millions of ordinary people primed by habit for the next context-free hysterical piece of media manipulation.

Headline: The Hidden Killer

Sub-head: more than a million people a year fall victim and you could be next!

Governments around the world have known about this lethal threat for decades but have done nothing to protect us. Now we bring you the true…

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Allan Milne Lees

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