Fear, panic, buy (online), work (online), stay at home, don't travel, don't have kids, don't even kiss each other...this is the subconscious message we're getting with this coronavirus scare. It's psychological warfare using lexical and numerical fallacies and frightening images through both mainstream and social media. The headlines are too eerily similar to the game Plague Inc.
I don't know a lot about the coronavirus, but there are some warning signs that say much of this is fake or hyped up:
Hype in mainstream media headlines for "outbreaks" in the single digits. Numbers so small, if you replaced the ever-changing name of the virus (which were probably hatched by a think tank of biologists, linguists and psychologists), with "the flu" you'd laugh!
A sudden flurry of short, alarming youtube videos shared on facebook and social media. Although frightening, they lack context, and if you had to objectively state what's happening, it looks like theatre.
For example, Chinese doctors yelling, people wearing face masks and fear headlines about shortages, fields of people mass twitching together, and people deboarding a plane getting haphazardly sprayed by guys in hazmat suits with pressure washers.
This is the word collage you get if you copy paste all of CNN's stories about the coronavirus (70 in 2 days).
Other scary prominent scary words include: virus, death, total, tested, screening, risk, alert, travel restriction, etc. Why are "authorities" telling us not to panic, yet the mainstream media (authorities) are undeniably bombarding us with fearful headlines, shocking pictures, weasel words, and even weasel numbers like: first. Since the numbers aren't statistically significant (so far), we just get overwhelmed with headlines of "x new cases and firsts.
