The above headline is on view at the Guardian website this morning.
No, Canadians are not shocked, because it's a story that does not appear to have made the national news horizon. We can't be shocked if the story is hidden from us.
Instead, we are treated to endlessly repetitive scaremongering about COVID-19. Today alone, for example, the CBC News home page provides four separate links to this story; Canadians want to know how bad this could get. Is anyone ready to tell us?
Why does this require four separate links? Couldn't they leave it at one or two, and use the others for some other news that might be going on the the country?
Like the murder of two guys on a moose hunt?
The premise of the headline seems somewhat flawed as well. The CBC has itself been regaling us with wild speculation about "how bad this could get" since late January, six weeks before Canada recorded its first coronavirus death.
Wonder what other news we've been missing?
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