I gave up the standard News a long time ago, like you I was a news junkie for a long time, CNN, FOX, ABC, all the three letter we want to give you our truth, and even CSPAN. It was all bad news, so I just quit it.
For a while as I weaned myself from it I would look at on line news like google and other world and social media news propaganda sites, but finally got that out of my system also.
I do not understand the lock down at all, period. As a species we are never going to acquire herd immunity by closing people off. I have COPD, and have had a portion of one lung removed, so there is no way I can fall into the:
they acted as if I was a granny killer, or as if I don't care about people with compromised immune systems
I may not be a granny but I am older and fit in that grouping sort of. If people took familiar and ordinary precautions of any flu outbreak things would have been over by now.
I hope when this all ends, that you and everyone and all of us can get our lives back on track.
Thanks for your comments @bashadow. I really hope we can get our lives back when this ends! I'm worried about the "new normal" they keep talking about - restaurants with enclosed booths, only 3 people allowed in a bar etc.
I hope there's a different "new normal", which would involve building up the immune system via good food, good mental health, work/life balance, exercise and enjoyment of the outdoors and social contact.
People can only be pushed so far into a new normal, then as history has shown, people start to push back.