[smackay]

How, in the new normal, do we ensure that reasoned posts like this and the recent one from the San Mateo Health Officer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25341289 gain the prominence they deserve so we can avoid hyperbole and hysteria and take sensible steps to solve this type of problem?

Perhaps, software developers, being the reasonable and reasoning people we are need to think long and hard about whether contributing to the destructive patterns in social interaction that we currently experience is the correct course of action and instead consider our long term stature as a profession.

Having said that, it is my fervent wish that the main stream media becomes a permanent casualty of the pandemic. It really serves no useful purpose anymore.