In all likelihood, much of this is overkill, but that overkill serves an important function in my opinion. It makes people aware which is a good thing.
I had a sibling die of the flu just over 2 years ago. That was a normal flu. If the constant coverage saves someone else's sibling from a more dangerous flu, then it's well worth it in my opinion.
I saw a meme the other day that said the coverage was dumb and compared it to the relatively minimal effects of the bird flu, Ebola and a few others. The only thing I could think of was maybe that coverage alerted the right people and got the proper precautions in place and led to "minimizing" the damage done. I'm hoping it does that here.
That said, I don't think that germaphobes wearing masks to the grocery store helps anything. It only contributes to a panic. The politicization is also dangerous. Raising too much alarm or stating someone else hopes for deaths for political reasons minimizes the importance of the alarms. In the end, I don't mind the coverage at all if it saves lives.
Just my opinion though.
I had a sibling die of the flu just over 2 years ago. That was a normal flu. If the constant coverage saves someone else's sibling from a more dangerous flu, then it's well worth it in my opinion.
I saw a meme the other day that said the coverage was dumb and compared it to the relatively minimal effects of the bird flu, Ebola and a few others. The only thing I could think of was maybe that coverage alerted the right people and got the proper precautions in place and led to "minimizing" the damage done. I'm hoping it does that here.
That said, I don't think that germaphobes wearing masks to the grocery store helps anything. It only contributes to a panic. The politicization is also dangerous. Raising too much alarm or stating someone else hopes for deaths for political reasons minimizes the importance of the alarms. In the end, I don't mind the coverage at all if it saves lives.
Just my opinion though.
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