Hope things pick up for you over there now. Thought we were doing well (for a change), but it turns out the switch from 6 to 12 weeks between the two doses is based on expediency, not medical science. Politicians, who'd have thought it?
Take a break dear. I am undecided whether the reporting is helping people exercise caution, or just causes too much anxiety. If in doubt, switch off the news and stay home and keep safe.
When Trump was in office (I love saying that in the past tense, BTW), MrsT would obsess over the news. She'd start with her favorite news source, then onto the next, then the next, until she'd cycled through the lot...then back to the beginning again. Neverending loop of reports on Trump's shenanigans, from 8AM until she went to bed at 11PM.
As others have said, please take a break from it. I can tell you the exact moment that I stopped watching the news. I had just come home after a day at work, evening at school (put myself through college) and a quick trip to the local Catholic church where I lit a candle and prayed for Susan Smith's kids to be found alive. This was a ritual I would repeat every day since the news broke her story. I never believed her story that her kids were taken by a car jacker because car jackers don't take kids and kidnappers don't need getaway vehicles.
The first thing I do when I log onto the internet each day is check the news. I read a few stories, then move on to my forums and stuff I do for work. I like to be informed, but I don't get obsessed by what's happening in the world.When Trump was in office (I love saying that in the past tense, BTW), MrsT would obsess over the news. She'd start with her favorite news source, then onto the next, then the next, until she'd cycled through the lot...then back to the beginning again. Neverending loop of reports on Trump's shenanigans, from 8AM until she went to bed at 11PM.
My habit was to check the online news over my lunch, then to watch the evening news report on TV, and that was that.
Her mental health was definitely affected, and she was worrying so much, she couldn't sleep half the time.
We'd gone to the doctor (for something unrelated), and when the doc was interviewing her, she (the doc) asked about her (MrsT's) media consumption, and we went over that, and then she asked me mine, and we talked about that, and she looked at my wife point-blank and said, "Do what he does or you'll go crazy."
Lasted all of three days.
So, yeah, either take a break, or just set up a time and say, "11AM-noon is my time for news, then that's it for the day."
Dems accumulating political capital for the future Biden hearings.
