Comment by adventured

The US is on a slope of increasingly extreme nannyism. Which, if you know the history of the US (both its present culture and its common historical beliefs about itself), that has to be a fairly amusing thing to observe from the outside.

For numerous reasons, the US culture has been fractured by a tiny, very loud, hyper triggered minority that screams from the rooftops 24/7 on social media. The virtue signaling brigade. Also known as the squeaky wheel getting the grease (attention in this case). They work hard & persistently at it, they're loud, they often band together for pet causes, and they get the government and companies to bend to their pressure routinely.

It's leading to a very mentally fragile nation, of emotionally stunted individuals that can't deal with reality and require aggressive shielding from reality. This type of mediocre labeling outcome is indicative of the broader cultural erosion. It's simply no longer good enough to label that something "may contain" risk. It's going to get worse yet before it bottoms out.