The FED has all but gotten on the table and screamed "stop wasting your money on protection - we are the damn put! Let tax payers pay for it in the next bailout."  A high VIX in this environment would be weird. Even if things were terrible (arguable depending on the economists you listen to),  the Fed has made their support very clear. 

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