Another break!?

GASP! Is Lisa abandoning social media?

No, of course not. I'm taking a break from watching the news channels. I'll still get my news but I just can't take the constant partisanship of MSNBC, CNN, and FOX. It's not good for the soul or the brain. For instance, I've done a pretty good job of NOT freaking out over COVID. I think I'm one of the few people around who hasn't, at some point, gone off the deep end into fear or paranoia.

And yet, last night, I had a really intense nightmare in which everyone on the planet was sick and slowly dying. It was a terrible dream and it was also the type of extreme vision that's regularly promoted on the 24-hour news channels. I've been watching them for the past two weeks, mostly to get news about what's happening in Afghanistan.

But, starting this week, I'm taking a break from MSNBCs and the CNNs and the FOXes of the world. And I'm not going to check any of the big, partisan political accounts on Twitter or Facebook either. I've seen too many people go down the Social Media Panic Rabbit Hole. And while I'm pretty sure that I would never follow them (for one thing, I tend to be a natural skeptic, which usually prevents me from panicking), it's still a good idea to take a beak every once and a while.

So, here we go. I'm on break starting .....

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NOW!