When the carnies spruik dodgy cure-alls, run, run as fast as you can

Ian writes: "Thanks for those good news nuggets, John. I had seen some of them, but somehow all the bad stuff seems to overwhelm them. My finger has been hovering over 'delete news subscriptions' for a while now (it did actually get plonked down on a certain app). Sometimes it requires a conscious effort to think about what we have to be grateful for. For example, living in Australia. I often suggest to my partner (who is a bit of an Eeyore), that she try keeping a gratitude diary. She usually comes up with something like 'not being bombed or shot at', or 'not living in the US'."