Keep the fear and paranoia going. The sheeple need to be kept in line.
It’s so very clear that not only do a significant number of people like to stoke constant fear (for their own benefit, no doubt), and that not only do a significant number of people live to breathlessly report each new “horror” (for the thrill of “being first to do so,” no doubt), far more people, I think, really savor being afraid and look forward to being told every hour of every day what they must do ... that they must obey their “expert” or their “politician” or, most disgustingly, their “unelected bureaucrat” of choice.