Here the fear mongering is constant, but it's a winter wave. The media obsesses over case numbers and criticizes the loosening of mask mandates. We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, so most cases are mild or asymptomatic. They seem to downplay the low death/ICU rates and barely mention them. You have to work to find that information. At the peak in 2020, we has 4,000 people in the ICUs, now it's fewer than 200. But, what does the media say - ICU beds are at 87% capacity, let's freak out!! What happened is that when things were bad, they set up extra beds. Now they have decommissioned most of those because they are not needed.

My husband has always been somewhat of a hypochondriac. The climate of fear is starting to get to him. I have to tell him to stop reading/watching the news.

Me, I am over it. What was the point of getting the stupid vaccines if they still want to put us under restrictions?

Of course, when our idiot president was in the US and Canada, he hardly ever was shown wearing a mask.