To clarify, I don't close my ears to everything going on in the outside world. I just don't get my information from news websites or tv stations etc. I still l

To clarify, I don't close my ears to everything going on in the outside world. I just don't get my information from news websites or tv stations etc. I still like to talk to people about what is going on. I find that less stressful, maybe because when talking with friends, family, colleagues, we don't tend to use such alarmist language (at least the people I talk to don't). As for point b), I can imagine this might not be true, as long as it really was the case that no-one was informed. Hard to plan and orchestrate bad things without information!