My ex spouse got an app that gave alerts every time there was anything going down in our neighborhood. They went from cautious to walk around at night to “omg we live in a crime riddled hellhole with people being murdered everywhere” and stopped going outside. People now have access to so much information, often explicitly designed to make you fearful, and we suck at statistics
It’s a good thing everyone learned their lessons from the last plague and we are now unanimously on board with various precautions and vaccination. This’ll all blow over in no time