[elamje]

I think it has a balanced chance of being overestimated or underestimated. The psychology side of me recognizes the human tendency to end up in an echo chamber(twitter, HN, etc), but the other side of me wonders if this time is really different.

Only time will tell. The only thing I am certain of is that traditional news and even twitter to a certain extent has lost a lot of credibility in my eyes, long before coronavirus was a thing. One of the few industries that will absolutely win during the next few weeks and months is news, so yeah, they don’t have the best incentives to calm people’s fears.