My elderly mother unfortunately is a slave to this. She never leaves the house and has FoxNews on day and night. She's already called my siblings and I several times to "warn" us of this plague and admonishes us to stay inside and hunker down.
By the way, she goes through the same hysterical routine for every winter storm, hurricane, mass shooting, Middle East bombing, etc., and has already had poor President Trump removed from office at least a 1,000 times since his Inauguration.
I tell her to turn the crap off but she's addicted to the nonstop barrage of "news" and will not shut it down out of fear that she might miss something important. And she's not the only one.
I tell my mom the same thing. Watching Fox 24 hours a day is worse than watching a soap opera
It is also important to keep in mind that the media is very determined to turn this into a “Katrina moment” for Pres Trump. To do that will require 24/7 Armageddon coverage. They are also doing everything they can to tank the economy before November. Panic disrupts supply lines. It’s already happening.
I’m not down playing the potential seriousness here, but I am saying that there are a lot of variables that should be factored in as we watch this unfold.
We know the Chinese government lies like a rug on virtually everything. We also know the the vast majority of the MSM in the US lies just as much. We also know that social media is a hotbed of kooks and commies. This may be pretty bad, maybe even awful. But it must not be forgotten that virtually no information from these sources can be taken at face value.
My aunt does the same but she can’t remember the President’s name so you are liable to hear that Jimmy Carter is about to get thrown out of office. Her son disabled CNN so he could live in peace.