I don't doubt that there are extraordinary happenings constantly appearing around the world, but thanks to mass media too many people are organizing their own personal realities around certain fears, tragedies and calamaties that are not in fact part of their experience. Newspapers and televisions depict symbols and images of those happenings, and the happenings are real, but if a person is not participating in them himself he should not suffer fear and woe as though he were.
It is literally harmful to one's physical health for the mind to send stress signals to the body with no clear presentation of that stressor in the immediate environment. The stress triggers bodily responses with no clear objective or resolution.