There was life before this pandemic but I cannot really remember it. All I know right now is that I'm stuck at home with my husband, and while he's about the best person I can think of to be stuck with (except for several movie stars I don't know in person), still it's enough already. The worst part, so far, is that my brain seems to have been emptied of anything but the most dire statistics concerning how many people have COVID-19, how many people died today, the shortage of tests and respirators and blah, blah, blah.
This is thanks to the media, whose main objective seems to be to raise our level of panic by dishing out only the bad news. Yes, people have died, but many have recovered! Why don't they tell us that on the news? It would be so much better for the morale of the country to hear that, "Today 176 people recovered from the coronavirus and are feeling great!"
And get this: According to a 2018 report by the United Nations World Population Prospects written well before the appearance of the coronavirus, "Approximately 7,452 people die every day in the United States. In other words, a person dies in the US approximately every 12 seconds."
How come we never heard that on the news?
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