☢️ Hiding Under Desks Isn't Economic Policy
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: The Morning Star · 1 min read · · Updated
🍿 OOPS SAYS
Replacing fear with a new economic plan sounds great, mostly because "hiding under a school desk" is a pretty terrible retirement strategy anyway.
What actually happened
THOSE of us who are from a certain generation remember when the threat of imminent nuclear extinction was regularly used to scare us. Compulsory school assemblies showed films of H-bombs incinerating cities and advised us that if one went off near Margate that we should hide under our desks, even if we lived hundreds of miles away.No matter how impoverished our families were, it was better to be underfed than dead was the real message behind the scaremongering.
Key points
- THOSE of us who are from a certain generation remember when the threat of imminent nuclear extinction was regularly used to scare us.
- Compulsory school assemblies showed films of H-bombs incinerating cities and advised us that if one went off near Margate that we should hide under our desks, even if we lived hundreds of miles away.
- No matter how impoverished our families were, it was better to be underfed than dead was the real message behind the scaremongering.
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