I share your distrust of the media, but I think there is an even more cynical answer at play. A bunch of my personal friends work for these publications. Almost

I share your distrust of the media, but I think there is an even more cynical answer at play. A bunch of my personal friends work for these publications. Almost all of us got covid in December, ironically many from the holiday parties of these publications, and came face to face with the reality that we have sacrificed almost two years of our 20s to a virus that was pretty mild. The thing we were trying to avoid came for us, so the idea that we would continue to live in fear of an event that already happened is absurd.