This is a science reporter at the Toronto Star, entirely on the coronavirus beat.

This is part of a larger pattern.

Reporters and academic scientists with medical anxiety have disproportionately shaped, and are continuing to shape, pandemic media coverage. It’s what is forming and setting the boundaries of discourse.

“Twitter is NOT real life!!!” he screams, before switching tabs over to a Zoom school board meeting in which three of this journalist’s articles are cited.