In the past we had the same amount of crisis events however they were not Crisis Events.

The world isn't falling apart particularly in this year, it's always been as bad! (Lookup "hinge of history")

But it seems as if the Crisis Event as a Spectacle is new, it's a kind of endless heightened fear level which is consumed and reacted to online and which justifies unique and exceptional policies and actions.

Before these crises were able to be handled with the tools we had.