Coronavirus Pandemic: Media-Driven Fear Warped COVID Response

‘So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror,” said President Franklin Roosevelt in his inaugural address in 1933, at the bottom of the Great Depression

There’s been an unrelenting torrent of bad news about the coronavirus. It’s a pandemic, so you’d expect downbeat coverage.

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‘So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror,” said President Franklin Roosevelt in his inaugural address in 1933, at the bottom of the Great Depression

There’s been an unrelenting torrent of bad news about the coronavirus. It’s a pandemic, so you’d expect downbeat coverage.