Coronavirus: Stay Calm and Avoid the Hype

March 2, 2020 By Tim Jones

There is a meme that has been going viral on Facebook, saying, "Stay calm and wash your hands" with regard to the coronavirus scare. That is certainly good advice. It might be a good follow-up to caution those on social media to "Stay calm and avoid the hype" with regard to the blazing headlines and stories across all of the various media platforms. If one didn't know better, the coronavirus outbreak has been the second coming of the bubonic plague, more commonly referred to as Black Death, that wiped out a third of the European population in the mid-1300s.

Clearly, the coronavirus is something not to be ignored when thousands have lost their lives, mostly in China. But so far, the threat has been blown completely out of proportion. With the competition from the old media having lost so much of their power to the new media in the last ten to twenty years, they need events like the spread of the coronavirus to exaggerate in order to stay relevant. But staying relevant does not necessarily benefit the public when information is skewed to scare people into thinking and feeling a certain way.

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