At my last job, maybe a good fifth of the company or so seemed to have emotional states which careened from one end of the spectrum to the other based upon whet

At my last job, maybe a good fifth of the company or so seemed to have emotional states which careened from one end of the spectrum to the other based upon whether some new COVID variant had just been announced, or new developments in the will-they/won't-they arrest Donald Trump theater, or whatever. They would occasionally be completely unable to do work based on these news items which, while sometimes of reasonably high importance, had effectively zero chance to change their daily lives in any meaningful way whatsoever. It was really quite something to watch.