One word: Amazon.
My wife jokes, about people with their faces in front of smartphones. A few years ago, on our way to the movies, she noticed a party of 4 young people in a booth, all staring into their phones, not at their companions.
I joke about people that text, rather than talk on the phone. It is as if with them texting, they maintain control of time, and perhaps ccontent, too.
Older folks, that survived Depression, Wartime ((including rationing) are less bewildered, about the prospect of any hardship.
'how will we survive, without our bottled water and TP, to ward off the evil disease?'
and 'won't it be solved by the late night news?'
I suggest name this the "Election Year Virus"