CNN is the network news of choice in the areas hard hit by the virus which is puzzling since those areas didn’t seem to fare better from their reporting.I'm saying that it was a bit jarring to us to be dealing with two elderly people, who only consume conservative news, and hear them all of the sudden pull a complete 180....purely because the people who deliver the news that they consume....told them that the virus was no longer a hoax. All of the sudden, to them the virus was real.
Their news feed wasn't telling them to self-isolate early on in this thing. Their son and daughter-in-law told them to do that, but they didn't believe us until their news told them the virus was real. It became very real for them when two acquaintances of theirs and my father-in-laws best friend friend ended up in the hospital. Even more real when 2 out of the 3 of them died.
First it was a hoax. Then it was the "Wuhan Virus". Now it's "We need to follow in Sweden's footsteps!!". I wish they'd make up their mind over there.
Like I said, I haven't heard "Sweden" yet, but I probably will eventually because, they don't watch CNN.
At the start the hardest hit Burrough was Queens and then maybe Brooklyn even though the first reported case(s ?) were in Manhattan. Do you have any thoughts on why Queens out of the Burroughs was especially hard hit?
I know Manhattan slightly but nothing about the other Burroughs.