Coronavirus — The Power of Globalized Media + Social Distancing

Stephanie Zhu
5 min readMar 11, 2020

These are my personal thoughts on Coronavirus from a health-minded perspective. This is my subjective opinion and my raw, real thoughts.

I am a certified massage therapist and Ayurveda student. I focus greatly on food and nutrition and building immunity from the inside out. I pretty much spend all of my time thinking, learning, and implementing the ways of being in order to be my healthiest and highest vibration self. And I made it my job to help others to unlock the same state within themselves.

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I am wondering about the impact that globalized media is having on escalating fears around coronavirus.

I see scary numbers and statistics, and then I see less scary numbers when being compared relatively to other widespread pandemics (like starvation and even the common flu).

How much of it is from a reputable source?
Have we forgotten about “fake news”?

Not saying this is fake by any means. Health is the thing to take most seriously, I have dedicated my life and unlocked my personal dharma by pursuing this path.

I’m just wondering how much hysteria has been unnecessarily generated by media, which truly showcases the widespread and globalized power of it. Is the seed of paranoia being planted…

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Stephanie Zhu

Passionate about agriculture policy and agroecology. MS Student in Rural Sociology & International Agriculture and Development @ Penn State University