COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Krodwhodat said

i think the reason why so many people are running to the hospital is fear, i dont think the governments and media around the world are doing enough coverage of the recovery numbers as well as the 80% that have only mild cases. we only see and hear the negative and its instilling fear in a lot of people. and by no means am i saying this is not a big deal but it would put a lot of people at ease if they reinforced that most have little symptoms and can fight it at home and that most of the people that need hospitalization are recovering maybe things wouldn't get so clogged up.

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So much of the news media depends on inciting emotions and fear is the easiest way for them to get viewers, reader, and clicks. The other night a local evening studio newscaster started his story with "... and it that does not scare you ..." There whole broadcast seemed to be designed around instilling fear instead of just giving valuable information and calming fear and panic,

Its as though there is a top 10 list of news stories in all of history and they are always trying to make every story top one of the top 10 stories so at some time in the future when they are the old grey reporters they can say there were there when .... Every story has to be sensationalized even more than it already is.