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An accurate post would be to avoid watching 'Too much' coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, I suppose. The title looks like it's framed to say that you shouldn't watch TV coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak at all.

This also applies to the climate crisis where watching 'too much' repeated TV coverage or awareness around its just as bad, but it's better to have some awareness of it for those who haven't heard or don't know what to do about this outbreak.

Keep calm and carry on!

Exactly! That's the spirit we should have. Keep calm and wash your hands :)

The title looks like it's framed to say that you shouldn't watch TV coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak at all.

That is what he is saying more or less: "In any a good, general textual news site, you can read the things you really want to know about Covid-19 in 10 or 20 minutes a day. "

Even the 10-20 minutes of reading he suggests would be worse as TV. What a medium like video brings to the table over text with the occasional diagram is new ways to not necessarily convey purely factual information, but to convey emotion.

They hype you up, yell, state everything in a super serious energised manner that I wouldn't consider appropriate unless I was trying to convince someone to either join me in a riot or a suicide. And that's just when I hear it on when I visit my mother and the biggest news story is some dodgy trady scandal. I imagine everyone involved in the entire predatory fear mongering tv news industry is currently salivating non-stop at the thought of the distress they can cause with a genuine pandemic.

No you shouldn't watch TV coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak at all.

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