(I tried submitting my link but I'm getting a "Please try again" error every time, so I gave up. Feel free to post it yourself.)

Thing is, we have the ability to take action right now. The author of the post on reddit is right: things like this already happen in other parts of the world. We have ways of protecting ourselves at our disposal. They're even accessible to non-techy people. People just need to recognize the events of the past couple days as an actual threat.