You'd need a dump truck to carry the irony. People suffering from anxiety? You don't say. The Guardian, BBC, and other MSM propaganda factories are in fact the primary purveyors of such, because they are beating the panic drum over an unremarkable seasonal illness. Increased substance abuse? Of course there is, considering the social distancing and lockdowns that the media itself has relentlessly advocated and supported. Dementia? The vast majority of those who had difficulties with this illness are elderly, a fact that the MSM consistently under-reports. This is the MSM pumping fear. If its stated, official goal were to "demoralize the populace", I can't think what they'd do differently.