Hahaha.
Fair is fair.
As people say, life outdoes fiction most of the time. We just need to look at stampedes. We laugh at animals who traditionally engage in such "practices" and we deem them idiotic; but then we have human stampedes, which usually turn out being considerably tragic.
Nothing more dangerous than irrational fear and panic.
I remember once, during one of the many tense moments we have lived in the last years, someone called me to inquire about our wellbeing because she had been told that Cumaná was being devastated by lootings and killing. I told her I was precisely walking downtown and that nothing was happening. "That can't be" she said. "I was told things were really hairy there".
That was over and out for me. She was inundating her social media with tragic news that made many people take drastic decisions and my empirical evidence did nothing to persuade her of the contrary.
We are really good at fostering rumors and exacerbating situations or events. That's one of the reasons Maduro is still in office.