> However some people also die or recover and experience severe respiratory issues, and this is an interesting thing to study and report on I fully agree on th

> However some people also die or recover and experience severe respiratory issues, and this is an interesting thing to study and report on I fully agree on that. I'm not disappointed about the studying, but the media coverage and amplification of people's irrational fears. There is many viruses out there which kill humans and cause all sorts of post viral effects which can last for months and we should all study them, get better at treating them, and finding new ways of curing them and that is fine, but it doesn't help to make lots of people mentally ill by singling out a disease and making people prisoners of their own fears. For example, in Brazil people should be more worried about getting Dengue fever, which you cannot easily prevent by washing your hands and keeping social distance, yet you don't hear about Dengue at all, because it's been normalised and there's no news story today. So the media just jump on something novel where there is still potential for playing into people's fears and they capitalise on this. I'm sick and tired of watching many people around me getting depressed and falling into lows because of fears of just going even for a walk in the park. Social media and the internet have always amplified the worst of humans. It's a joke that we've known for years that if you google for a pain in your toe you'll get diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer on the internet. It shouldn't really be a surprise that we see the same thing happening for COVID-19.