Your and GP's comments are a perfect illustration of the social media bubble effect. Some people saw an entire news feed telling them it was nothing to worry ab

Your and GP's comments are a perfect illustration of the social media bubble effect. Some people saw an entire news feed telling them it was nothing to worry about, and another group saw a news feed saying it was going to be a global pandemic. It's easy to point the finger after the fact, but you have to understand that people will believe what they perceive as being "common knowledge", and in this day and age that means whatever their twitter and facebook friends say for the majority of people.