You'd need a dump truck to carry the irony. People suffering from anxiety? You don't say. The Guardian, BBC, and other MSM propaganda factories are in fact the <i>primary purveyors of such</i>, because they are beating the panic drum over an unremarkable seasonal illness. Increased substance abuse? Of course there is, considering the social distancing and lockdowns that the <i>media itself has relentlessly advocated and supported</i>. Dementia? The vast majority of those who had difficulties with this illness are elderly, a fact that the MSM consistently under-reports. This is the MSM pumping fear. If its stated, official goal were to "demoralize the populace", I can't think what they'd do differently.
Link to the paper at Lancet: <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(21)00084-5/fulltext" rel="nofollow">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...</a>