Keep Coronavirus insanity away by avoiding the news

In light of this absolute media insanity around the Coronavirus, monitoring your internet usage will be just as important as washing your hands and not licking metro poles.

I’ve yet to convince some people around me that the news lies for views and money. It’s astonishing to me how many people have blind faith in the journalistic system and still consider it an infallible source of truth. The media loves nothing more than war, epidemics, terrorists, and missing children. That’s because all these topics make for wonderful revenue streams and increase in viewership.

Below is a screenshot of the nonsense that appeared in my YouTube today despite only clicking on one single Coronavirus video on the science of how it works.

Please note the titles and how completely un-newsworthy some of them are in this image. Why on earth should I care about what some random Canadian has to say about being in Wuhan right now? That is not news. That is blogging. Our journalists shouldn’t be busy promoting this nonsense.

A term that I feel is not widely used enough anymore is FUD. Here’s the definition from Wikipedia.

The term “fear, uncertainty, and doubt” appeared as far back as the 1920s,whereas the similar formulation “doubts, fears, and uncertainties” even reaches back to…