I suspect you are just posturing, but let us take you at your word. The argument/line of attack against “crazy right wing” TV and radio hosts is that they are fleecing their “stupid” listeners hawking things like Simply Safe Security, Goldline, and various pre-prepared foods. They are telling their listeners daily to be prepared for a crisis. The Left’s standard operating procedure is to mock “Preppers” incessantly.
So two things come to mind:
1) Either your dad is of such low intelligence that he did the opposite of what every right wing commentator he listens to tells him to do and probably could not be helped in any way shape or form by anyone
or
2) You, like most Americans, lack any ability to empathize with anyone who has an opposing opinion, and respond instead to a caricature of what motivates people with whom you disagree.
The people on this board who are panicking, for the most part, are they who would mock people like me who in their home keep a gun, a safe with precious metals and a year supply of food and water. People who shop at Costco and routinely buy in bulk are apparently hopeless, paranoid rubes. Yet, I have had to go shopping once since the middle of February. I can help others because I am prepared. Meanwhile in a completely predictable turn of irony the people who are constantly telling us, “Hey let government do more” are completely panicked. But because they are completely incapable of mature self-reflection they don’t have the ability to consider that maybe a command and control style, single payer-type of government is not suited to do really anything quickly and efficiently. The answer is always to mock and lob completely contradictory criticisms at the Right when if you had listened to “us” the country would be fine right now. It is not fly over country where we live which is spreading the pandemic.
