In order to understand the "don't worry about coronavirus, worry about the flu" coverage, you have to understand that there will be virtually no consequences for the press for getting this wrong, and plausibly some "we told you so" cred otherwise
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Here's an interesting video of Bush and Republicans trying to reign in the housing market in the mid-2000s, Schumer and Barney Frank fought against it:https://youtu.be/LPSDnGMzIdo
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I can't. I was too young and in another country, and I don't really track the media much even now. I'm happy to concede that journalists don't pay much price for bad predictions, but if this should cause a bias I think it would be in favor of overblowing threats.
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If journalists were considering expected value, I think they would, and their predictions would be better for it. In reality, I believe they're just playing the odds. A close call or a short-lived pandemic is more likely than a 1918 scenario
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Art Laffer, not quite a media person, but he said it.
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Pretty well everyone on CNBC
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