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T HE C URE fO R fEAR

not cease to rotate while you are doing it. It is okay to
turn your phone on airplane mode and get stuff done.

4. Look past the alarming headlines
Even if you take all these steps, the fact of the matter is,
a lot of other people won’t. So in a sense, you will still
be surrounded by fearmongers. When you inevitably
see an alarming headline about coronavirus and the

state of the world, look past the panic. Read the article,
then go deeper and look at the citations referenced in
the article. Read articles through the lens of knowing
that the media profits from your fear and hysteria;
fear is contagious, but digging deeper and educating
yourself will keep you immune.
If more people were more passionate about

finding the truth and facts about the coronavirus
than just trying to share a pithy headline, maybe, just
maybe, we wouldn’t find ourselves clamoring for the
government to bail us out.

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