The information environment for coronavirus is going to be the most complicated information environment we've ever been in for a natural disaster.
It is proceeding through parts of the world on a time lag, and while language barriers have delayed understanding of extent/severity, it is going to saturate offline and online social networks.
Imagine your 200 closest friends/family/colleagues. Image getting hour-by-hour updates from them at the hospital.
Now imagine them forwarding those updates from their 200 closest friends/family/colleagues, plus the standard operations of traditional media and social media.
Now imagine them forwarding those updates from their 200 closest friends/family/colleagues, plus the standard operations of traditional media and social media.
You may wish to electronically tone down your exposure for your own mental health. I recommend giving yourself permission to do that.
This situation will likely not resolve itself in days or weeks.
This situation will likely not resolve itself in days or weeks.
There will also be extreme flareups over things which are not the common enemy, because some folks will be at the "Anxiously waiting during the last normal days" stage while others are grieving, and they talk.
This is already happening, but you're going to see a lot more of it.
This is already happening, but you're going to see a lot more of it.
And so you're going to see firestorms over people signal boosting impassioned "How dare you X while I have Y" from folks with impeccably good reasons to be upset, with *very engaged* emergent networks of watchers.
