No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying “everything is fine, better than you think even, you don’t need to worry”.

Though doom scrolling does help keep people’s minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.

EDIT: Actually, there’s probably a contingent of Guardian readers that do want to be outraged. They want to blame someone else for their uselessness.