At the beginning of quarantine, I really relied on my twitter feed to give all the news about Covid-19. I can already hear what you are saying "twitter isn't that reliable". I already know it is not that reliable but I wasn't really paying attention to the news all that much, to begin with. After giving it a lot of thought I decided that I really do need to pay much attention to the news because I work in healthcare and things change every single day.
At my work, the older ladies listened to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear daily briefings and honestly, I enjoyed hearing them and I thought it honestly gave me everything that I needed to know and I knew it was accurate for the most part. I know during this time media coverage is very prominent at this time but you also have to watch out for the outlets that you choose to listen to because they are biased. Along with hearing daily briefings, I like to gather information from different news outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post to compare and contrast information. I felt pretty informed with the combination of these three. You can never be too informed. I also gathered a lot of information from the pharmacists that I work with. I realized very quickly I have to be informed due to many customer questions that I was encountering.
My mom is not really good at picking out fake news. She will believe anything she reads or that talks. I really had to show her that you need to watch out where you get news from because they will say stuff that isn't exactly true or misinform you. I felt like I was a news outlet for her too. She would ask me each day if there were any updates about the pandemic. She even found a recipe for a tea that supposedly cured Covid-19. I had to shut that down real quick because if that were the case then we would not be in this thing called a Pandemic. C'mon Mom you know better than that!
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