“…that nice shiny new thing they can use to whip up fear and thus boost the value of their ad slots because lots of terrified eyeballs will be scanning articles for news…”

Thank you, 50 claps for this. My impression is that people are getting wise to this manufactured hysteria, I wonder how many more years of these ‘outbreaks’ it will take for the general populace to become immune (no pun intended) to the lies that newspapers sell. There’s always the possibility that too many people will always fall for this sort of rubbish, which is somewhat depressing.