The ones on my mind are “how long will large populations be locked down?” “How many people are going to die?” and “how long until this all happens again?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your comment might be just fine in an in-person conversation, but if you respond to someone this way in a broadcast medium [1], it comes across as a kind of social enforcement and shaming, especially if (like this one was) it sits at the top of a thread accruing mass—which happens easily because because indignation routinely attracts upvotes [2]. The OP has every right to think about what interests him, nor does it somehow follow from this that he doesn't care about people dying.
[1] Which HN is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22780144
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The media is incentivized to distract you. Turn off your computer, read a book, and don’t forget to live.
As an individual, there's only so much you can do and there's no need to keep yourself distracted from other matters.
You can stay tuned in to the world around you without collapsing on the ground in hysterics.
Is it really the large populations that worry you or is it just the risk that you might be next or even more hypocritic, that your investment portfolio is going south? Very bad and innevitable horrors have been happenning for a while(i.e the war Yemen, Iraq) and the "large populations" that you mention had little to no insomnia.
And they’ve had very little effect on me. It’s not irrational to care at different levels depending on that.
For those who make it through, they'll be wiser and more prepared for similar situations - and their descendants may be too, at least for a while.
But life is a long game.