Last line is beautiful! - I have not watched TV in 40+ years (some exceptions, of course; I do not own one and do not have "cable") - it does make a difference; read the top comment above Tina MD - "bought this" I never bought it - I was there by the end of March 2020.
Here is another item for your litany: "In a real pandemic" four or five Northeastern states would not have been in a psychotic, media driven frenzy about respirators while the rest of the US was nearly silent about them - pure PsyOp there - couldn't be anything else: