If you avoid watching, listening or reading the news, you might be able to tamp down the fear and isolation of the current health pandemic.
Or, you could take control.
Code writers get into your phone, onto your watch and across your laptops to serve you ads and they’re still doing it during COVID 19. So the more they can keep you hooked, worried, scared or addicted to not missing anything, the more money they make.
Media companies succeed by running ads during times of national concern like now and that’s why everything is “Breaking News” and every story is based on fear.
Find a handful of news sources that have earned your trust and rely on them.
Take control of the negativity that bombards you all day.
Balance fear with hope.
Start with this – from Harvard Medical School citing CDC research and reread as necessary:
“Most people with COVID-19 recover. Estimates now suggest that 99% of people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 will recover.”
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