Not listening to fear mongerers is being prudent. For example.

A man lives alone in the woods, happy, gets sick once in a while. Then a fear mongerer knocks on his door and informs him that all these years, the reason why he got sick every now and then was because he was infected with VIRUSES.

A what? he says

A VIRUS! the visitor replies. He goes on to tell the woodsman how viruses work, that the apocalypse is here, he even tries to teach him virus names...

- "You see, you have the H1N1 virus, the covid-19 virus, but then you also have your variants, and if you give me some of your money, I can sell you something that will prot"

The woodsman cuts him off mid-sentence. "Look, I don't know anything about vireesses, or covids and varians, but I
he now I need to tend to my traps, goodbye".

The woodsman went on to live a long life, free from all the bullshit society was trying to inflict upon him because he didn't give two flying fucks about the people knocking on his door every week to warn him about the coming apocalypse. He didn't have time for that, he had traps to tend to.