Ross Miller wrote:...this does not merit the level of hysteria in the media etc that we are seeing.
Or perhaps this is a way to take our minds of other things that we really should be worried about...
Fact-checking and independent, critical thinking are fundamental to a responsible media. But as these attributes of good journalism are hard work, and bad for a career in the mainstream, they've largely disappeared from it. The vacuum's filled by hysteria, outrage, sensation and client journalism.
But there's WW3 brewing on the Turkish/Syrian border and that could vaccinate us all against COVID-19...