By Tony Russell
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"Turning to the weather forecast, the National Weather Bureau has issued a 'severe alert' for violent storms. Joining us now is psychometeorologist Dr. Rebecca Engel to interpret the Bureau's warning. Rebecca, how serious is this threat?"
"Very serious, Lorna. The atmosphere is highly charged; political climate change is real. What were once considered freak events are occurring almost daily. We haven't heard rhetoric at this level of lunacy since Germany in the 1930s. The Insanity Index is at the highest level I've seen in my career."
"Who's at risk, Rebecca?"
"It's the usual victims. The old, the young, women, the poor, and the marginalized are most at risk. Ideally, children should have caring, nurturing, and stable environments [gives a nervous laugh]--well, ideally we should all have caring, nurturing, and stable environments--but children are the least able to deal intellectually and emotionally with the kind of bizarre incidents we've been seeing."
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