I've spent HOURS trying to talk friends and families down from worrying about the variants and speculating on future doomsday pandemic scenarios. They're coming from a good place (precaution) but the press has been absolutely terrible at fanning those flames into paranoia.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1379429990278688771 …
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It seems genuinely difficult for people (especially liberal / progressives!) to acknowledge that their favorite media has a distinct interest in continuously generating scary headlines. My explanation? The press has become financially dependent on feeding us bad news.
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I don't fully know, but I suspect a combination of: scientific illiteracy (the amount of bad science even in science journalism! Mind-blowing!) plus overcorrection (under-warned last Jan/Feb/early Mar 2020) plus traffic/demand.
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