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Trudeau in self-isolation as wife Sophie Grégoire tested for new coronavirus

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Piggy-backing off this, does anyone have any tips for navigating the news when there's a large undercurrent of panic beneath the surface?

I get that the news has the motto of if it bleeds, it leads but I also need to know the major events occurring in the world.

Personally I've been trying to view the news as something that is more panic inducing in such a trying time. I've tried to recognize that the language being used is coming from people who may be just as scared as anyone else, and that feeds into a self-reinforcing loop.

I've also found that reading Reddit's comments are anxiety-inducing, so I've tried to stick to the study-and-facts-only subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/

Something I accidentally started doing was reading the news on a delay. I had some email subscriptions from publications that I fell behind on, and then when I started working through the ones from a few weeks earlier, would notice that there were a lot of articles that were clearly not relevant or useless at all - like weeks of speculation and prediction on an upcoming election.

Which you can sorta apply in real time too - look for facts, not prediction - so it's shaped how I look at real-time headlines and such too.

My current tactic: I'm reading "The Week" via Feedly/RSS only. It's helpful w/r/t with the "reload" impulse and the "casting a wider net" tendency.

> I also need to know the major events occurring in the world.

I'm curious what line of work you're in which requires you to know all that.

That's my concession to my nature. I want to know all the things happening around the world, and have since I was young. I decided to try to temper it, rather than deny it outright.

Opposition Leader of the NDP Jagmeet Singh also in self-isolation because he hasn't been feeling well.

NDP no longer the official opposition, so it's not quite accurate to refer to Jagmeet Singh as the Opposition leader anymore.

well, he's a leader of an opposition party. just not the Official Opposition

In Canadian politics "opposition leader" implies leader of the "official opposition", which has a meaning significantly different than simply not the party in control of parliament.

It’s not only in Canadian politics but in most parliamentary republics.

The US doesn’t have a direct equivalent but the closest one would be the minority leader.

Not the first, nor second, but the third opposition in fact.

The Brazilian communications minister tested positive for Coronavirus last night too, raising questions about both Jair Bolsonaro and more importantly, President Trump and VP Pence, with whom he was staying at Mar-a-Lago last weeked (along with several other high level people).

Edit: this isn't a rumor, and seems extremely relevant. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/487244-trump-say...

What that the reason why the President looked to worried last night? Or was it that he has his meeting with the representatives from all major banks just before, and they explained to him that you cannot fix a real-world crisis with virtual money?

Worried? Chaos is the new cocaine.

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