So it seems. There are a lot of things that don't appear necessary concerns here, and yet other things seem significantly more terrible.

Hm.

Out of curiosity, this great disaster on the horizon - how does anyone know for certain it isn't already too late? I mean if there's know particular date set as a reference how does anyone know this isn't all an elaborate ruse to distract the people that could feasibly do something about the entire thing?

I don't mean to sound fatalistic but I've been in that sort of situation before.