Scaremongering

 

The news is a lot right now. And I don't mean that in the sense of not wanting to be aware of what's occurring for a second. I don't mean it in the sense of wanting to bury my head in the sand and ignore the privilege that would allow me to do that. I don't even mean it in the context of struggling to deal with what is actually necessary to know.

I mean it in the sense of all the extras. The click-bait. The headlines drawn up to draw in. The think pieces from those who have literally no more understanding of this complex situation than we do but have a column or a slot that they now choose to fill with their hot take.

Things are serious, scary and sad enough without this. It's not a story it's reality, real people's reality (also the reality of MANY more people elsewhere in the world) and much like the pandemic, climate-change and all the big stuff that's filled the last few years, it does not need dramatizing any more.

*breathes*

There's not a lot else I can say right now. Love to you all and if you need to chat because you too, cannot deal with the constant in-your-face shouts, you know where I am.

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