kill the messenger

If you don’t like the facts, get rid of the people responsible for gathering the data and find someone willing to cook the books. That’s basically what’s happening here. Pretty soon I’ll be one of those oldsters in a dystopian story sitting around the fire as the world burns yapping about how in my day facts were facts and people didn’t die from preventable diseases. And some youngster is gonna say, “Mommmmm, she’s hallucinating again. Make her stop!”