It depends on how you react to the news. When the pandemic came around, as an avid reader of news my family managed to accumulate large amounts of N95 masks, t

It depends on how you react to the news. When the pandemic came around, as an avid reader of news my family managed to accumulate large amounts of N95 masks, toilet paper, bottled water, and ordered work from home equipment early. Beat the rush and many had to wait for those things. News of the tech layoffs, well, I make sure to refresh my network periodically is what I will say. News of the problems with air travel made me look more closely at various priority programs at airports so I would not be caught up in them. All manner of little government programs have been useful to me at one point in my life or another and I have mostly learned about those through the news. I will often donate to causes I learn about in the news. I wish I had the time to consume more. To me the idea of cutting out news for one's mental health would be like ignoring medical problems to avoid having to think about them. Refusing to know about something doesn't change the world.