Meanwhile some of aren't badly affected but care about the wellbeing of others so choose not to tune out to their detriment.
Also, by nature of my environment, and I know a decent number of activists and they seem to be the ones who understand the futility of doomerism the most.
Of course you can follow the news and still be mislead and of course you can keep to do date with what's happening in other ways, but tuning out and feeling guilty about it was what was explicitly being discussed as I understood it.
I then understood your comment within that context as being flippant about that kind of tuning it. However it seems we just got our wires crossed so apologies for my tone.