The Media Is More To Blame For The Worldwide Economic Shutdown Than The Coronavirus
Coronavirus is nothing to be taken lightly. For some, the virus is indeed deadly. In 2020, however, the world has more access to technology, media, and information than it ever has before. This wide influence the media has, rather than truth and facts, has played a unique role in the reaction and response to this pandemic, and it’s unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Is a mass shutdown necessary? If so, why is it necessary? These are both valid questions that, given the evidence that has emerged since the beginning of all this, probably didn’t get enough discussion. The tendency to react and to do so quickly is often necessary in times of crisis, but that type of reaction should be predicated on truth and fact. While there is usually a grain of truth in every outright lie or honest mistake, it seems that in this day and age of media dominance, opinions rather than the truth played the biggest role in promoting the shutdowns that swept the world.