Why is it that all white male pundits of a certain age feel irresistibly compelled to produce contrarian takes dumping cold water on people expressing alarm over covid news

(It's not a telephoto lens, by the way)
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1263111022249992200
"What if everything's better than it looks and you're overreacting?" - the official motto of the white dude with the sinecure
Literally five minutes after my tweet:

"What if everything was better than it looked and you overreacted?"
"What if you everything is better than it looks and you're overreacting?"
"What if everything is better than it looks and you're overreacting?" https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1270746387358142470
"Calm down"
"What if everything is better than it looks and you're overreacting?"
please note that it's always like the same five dudes deploying the weaponized smugness
"What if everything is better than it looks and you're overreacting?"

*two weeks later*

"What if, despite things having gotten seemingly much worse, everything is still better than it looks and you're overreacting?"
"What if everything is better than it looks, BECAUSE you're overreacting"
“What if everything is better than it looks, and you’re overreacting”
"What if disenfranchising millions of Americans is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"
These guys don't actually care about real-world outcomes - their life's work is winning a neverending contest to prove they're the smartest little boy in the room. Scolding people for overreacting is a neat trick they've learned to sound savvy
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting?"
"Calm down"
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting?"

At article length, this time.
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting" to the GOP's apparent efforts to throw out a bunch of mail ballots cast before the election
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"

judicial coup edition
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"

calvinball election rules edition
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting"

the president's-repeatedly-reaffirmed-plan-to-muddy-the-results-of-the-election edition
"What if everything is better than it looks, and you're overreacting?"

catastrophic senate flop and house losses edition
“What if everything is better than it looks, and you’re overreacting”

Trump-won’t-leave edition
“What if everything is better than it looks, and you’re overreacting”

joking-unless-you're-serious-in-which-case-I'm-serious edition
all the usual suspects hard at work

"it's actually GOOD that Pompeo proposed a coup"
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