Tamaya wrote:
I think it was the way the article was written: "Mystery virus" sweeping the world. Just sounded alarming, like a new major pandemic was on its way. It's the same time of the year as the time I first started hearing about covid at the end of 2019. That was a "mystery virus", although I didn't think too much of it then, because I thought it was just the media scaremongering and so decided not to panic. But now I find I assume everything in the media is true until proven otherwise. Getting reassurance also helps, as others might have a more logical approach on it than I do.
It's like when I first saw a thing on Facebook pop up saying Starmer is going to force digital IDs on everyone, I thought that was just made-up news, a bit of banter even. But that turned out to be real.
So yeah, I'm just going to assume everything is true until proven otherwise. So even if it said that blue 8-eyed aliens are going to land tomorrow and do a dance, I'm still going to assume it's true until proven otherwise.
Agree the headline was misleading clickbait.
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30 Dec 2025, 2:56 pm
