China’s carbon emissions have massively dropped. The Hubei province isn’t working and people are being welded inside their homes. You want to know how these people feel? Listen to the chilling sounds they make at night. 10% of the worlds population is under some type of quarantine and this is what is in the papers. Ebola and SARS, were heavily sensationalized, so why not coronavirus too? This difference alone, should scare people. In fact, this post would never make it to the front page, because I am saying what the media won’t.

China is blatantly faking their numbers, and the virus has gone exponential in Italy and South Korea the past few days. The White House has openly stated they have no faith in China’s numbers The WHO has literally asked the media not to sensationalize the coronavirus to keep people from panicking. Twitter doesn’t allow it to trend even though #coronavirus is popping every second of the day. Google search results won’t even show data for COVID19 searches, and shows coronavirus plummeting to almost no daily searches. Need I keep going??

Coronavirus meets all the criteria of pandemic, yet the WHO wont declare it as such. The media is completely ignoring the biggest pandemic to occur in a century.

On one hand, it makes sense not to panic the public, because economic crisis could be even worse than COVID-19 itself. And it’s working. Nobody cares, nobody sees the problem.

Let me just leave you with a quote from the movie Contagion:

“We just have to make sure nobody knows, until everybody knows.”

Economic crisis isn’t good for anybody, so why cause panic? Unfortunately, this can’t go on forever, economic crisis is upon us. It’s not an if, but a when.

EDIT: The fact that there are still people in the comments comparing coronavirus to the flu and denying the severity shows how people fall victim to normalcy bias, and won’t acknowledge the black swan event right in front of them, even when the evidence is all there.