You just need to turn off the news.
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Descriptively write down the fears you have about the future in this very moment. Put that paper along with the last 5 covid media headlines from the weekend into an envelope and put it in a drawer. Set yourself a reminder for late May to open it and read it.
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It's never as bad as the media make it sound! They are in the fear promotion business! Nobody clicks and reposts a story about how everything will be just fine so enjoy your life.
"COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we constantly have the death toll on the side."
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"Fear really drives numbers. It does, you know, the happiest days in news, people, I would imagine, turn it off ... fear is the thing that keeps you tuned in."
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-CNN
I can't locate the original video ATM, but, yes, a director at CNN admitted to using Covid data to incite fear for ratings. They also wished the death toll was higher iirc
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This isn't the original publisher or source of the video [if I find it again I'll update], but you can see snippets of it here:
https://youtu.be/zQuzCFNdtwI
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They've also talked about making it their goal to skewing representation Trump and Biden for the purpose of getting Trump out of office, and that climate change will be their next big push to keep people afraid
Nah, this new fear gripping the world.
They'll keep using it, and varying the degree of fear with each variant.
It was Ebola a few years back it didn't freak enough people out.
Now they have this virus that is actually killin people, they'll bleed it dry, because people are looking to them for information and guidance again.
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Descriptively write down the fears you have about the future in this very moment. Put that paper along with the last 5 covid media headlines from the weekend into an envelope and put it in a drawer. Set yourself a reminder for late May to open it and read it.
.
It's never as bad as the media make it sound! They are in the fear promotion business! Nobody clicks and reposts a story about how everything will be just fine so enjoy your life.
.
"Fear really drives numbers. It does, you know, the happiest days in news, people, I would imagine, turn it off ... fear is the thing that keeps you tuned in."
.
-CNN
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This isn't the original publisher or source of the video [if I find it again I'll update], but you can see snippets of it here:
https://youtu.be/zQuzCFNdtwI
.
They've also talked about making it their goal to skewing representation Trump and Biden for the purpose of getting Trump out of office, and that climate change will be their next big push to keep people afraid
They'll keep using it, and varying the degree of fear with each variant.
It was Ebola a few years back it didn't freak enough people out.
Now they have this virus that is actually killin people, they'll bleed it dry, because people are looking to them for information and guidance again.