Rats. Here it is, mere days from an outbreak of ghosts and goblins, and nobody is even scared. Been out on the balcony. People are strolling around the streets without a care in the world. They ain't afraid of no ghosts, and they ain't afraid of no world ending.
What's needed is a more credible threat of total destruction than pagan holidays and the demented ravings of religious fanatics. Hey, what happened to that doomsday clock? The one that used to ominously display the world's proximity to the midnight of nuclear doomsday.