Listen to radio and it’s about COVID-19. Watch the news and it’s about COVID-19. Watch entertainment news and it’s about, you guessed it, COVID-19.
Facebook is flooded with posts about COVID-19.
The common thread with all is the threat of the virus is to everyone with numbers and charts to prove their point.
Curiously absent are those doctors reporting that this not as bad as the fears being peddled. God help you if you have the stones to point this out to the true believers of the COVID-19 Church of the Apocalypse.
Yes, I know that last sentence is a bit sarcastic, but you know there is far too much truth in it.
A few days ago, someone called me out for presenting facts not in accordance with the COVID-19 Church. We had a back and forth about the numbers reported on confirmed deaths inflating the mortality rates overall, when even the CDC says from 80% to 83% of the total cases are under reported. When I posted a link, she agreed, then said it was too early to tell if the 80% would start to lower later. She needed to be fearful and found a way to make it happen even in the face of the facts.
Another person insisted some experts claim COVID-19 will persistently give those that recover breathing problems. What she was saying is the “some” experts were “most” experts All her links managed to carefully parse their words and phrases with the likes of it could, might, we think, it seems, it is possible, etc. Pointing this out, well, that is a sin deserving of death.
Again, she needs to fear, and she like so many others, feels the need to propagate their fears to others. They research for the phrases and fears they want to validate and take extreme offense to anything and anyone who presents a logical counter to their fear.
Yet, I’m not surprised at all this. Fear sells, it gets clicks online, and makes even kids rich and famous. In a few months, the fear will something else. I’m betting it goes back to the doom and gloom of the environment “crisis.”