The ascending numbers experiment was quite revealing. Thanks for sharing!

Generally speaking, the media is shifting more and more towards hysteria new reporting, instead of going into it with the goal to educate the civilisation. I get it, fear sells, but I do hope that somehow we could incentivize news coverage to put a focus into education instead of hype.

The snopes article was actually quite good. Especially the last part:

You can protect yourself in the same way as you would against other respiratory illness: by being vigilant about hand-washing and practising good cough and sneeze etiquette, which means coughing or sneezing into your flexed elbow or into a tissue, and washing your hands.

But still, why isn't there anything mentioned about maintaining a healthy immune system? Good sleep, high-quality food and other stuff: i.e Wim Hoff Breathing etc. That would be something to actually help people, instead of creating even more fear.