From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Weatherwax’s Postulate: The degree to which you overreact to information will be in inverse proportion to its accuracy.

Goofy guy’s Analysis of Weatherwax’s Postulate: In these times, it seems everyone is reacting in accordance with this postulate regardless of where the information is coming from. Exponentially.