My friend from Italy sent me an SMS at midnight saying "have you heard from the UK???" (where I live). No, was my answer and I had a quick look on The Guardian.
"Boris Johnson announces 80% of Brits will contract the disease, half a million (500,000) will die in UK only."
That sounds absolutely scary, I read the article and that's the worst case scenario resulting from yesterday's COBRA meeting.
So, I'm furious at:
- My friend for creating an unnecessary panic, I thought there was another terror attack.
- The Guardian for taking the worst scenario information and passing it as if it were the current stage of the pandemic as of 12 March.
- Boris Johnson for announcing such numbers. There's no cure YET, but wait a bloody minute before talking about half a million deaths.
I'm done with the COVID-19 news. I'll catch up with the research, but I'm going to avoid any discussion from friends, TV, news, Reddit and even HN. I guess I still am furious.
So you're furious at your Italian friend because you jumped to conclusions and at the guardian and Boris for talking about the reasonable worse case scenario to make people aware of how bad this could get... (BTW most people I've met today still think a small minority of this country will contract ncov-2
The point of this very post is stressing the fact that news being repeated over and over and over tends to wear one out, logic and common sense stop prevailing and we just get irrational.
So yeah, I am furious because I stopped being rational, thanks to the media to bombarding us and milking an important event even though they have the honest goal of keeping the populace informed.
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I went to bed _furious_ yesterday.
My friend from Italy sent me an SMS at midnight saying "have you heard from the UK???" (where I live). No, was my answer and I had a quick look on The Guardian.
"Boris Johnson announces 80% of Brits will contract the disease, half a million (500,000) will die in UK only."
That sounds absolutely scary, I read the article and that's the worst case scenario resulting from yesterday's COBRA meeting.
So, I'm furious at:
- My friend for creating an unnecessary panic, I thought there was another terror attack.
- The Guardian for taking the worst scenario information and passing it as if it were the current stage of the pandemic as of 12 March.
- Boris Johnson for announcing such numbers. There's no cure YET, but wait a bloody minute before talking about half a million deaths.
I'm done with the COVID-19 news. I'll catch up with the research, but I'm going to avoid any discussion from friends, TV, news, Reddit and even HN. I guess I still am furious.
So you're furious at your Italian friend because you jumped to conclusions and at the guardian and Boris for talking about the reasonable worse case scenario to make people aware of how bad this could get... (BTW most people I've met today still think a small minority of this country will contract ncov-2
The point of this very post is stressing the fact that news being repeated over and over and over tends to wear one out, logic and common sense stop prevailing and we just get irrational.
So yeah, I am furious because I stopped being rational, thanks to the media to bombarding us and milking an important event even though they have the honest goal of keeping the populace informed.