The media's job is to over exaggerate EVERYTHING! To place fear into everyone's thoughts. It's become rather RIDICULOUS.
This.
I recall a few years ago when this HUGE blizzard hit the east coast. That bald reporter from the Weather Channel was in New York covering the story. He was in a Antarctica style parka and was wearing snowshoes as he reported the storm live. As he showed how many feet deep the snow was trodding around in his snowshoes two people walked through the backdrop about 100 yards away just walking normally in a few inches of snow through the park.
Fake news abounds.
I really don't watch the news anymore. Not much I can do to change it. Being reactive works for me instead of wasting a bunch of time being proactive
This isn't too related but yet it is; I had the opportunity to bump into the infamous Brockway Mountain hermit a few times. One time he had a headache and we offered him some pain pills. He declined them. He said, "if I took them how would I know when my headache was really gone?"