As for the 'pandemic', in USA we've lost 6 total per last news I heard. Compare that to influenza average of 40-50 deaths per day in 2020. Media are fear mongers...perhaps?
How many flu cases compared to how many corona virus cases?
Should the media have kept quiet on this until it reaches more daily deaths than influenza?
From Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization:
"We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures."
Is it wrong to think information via the media is one of the "right measures" to help contain this malady? If nothing else, maybe the raised awareness of the general public will lessen the severity of our normal flu season.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)