The speaker in the poem "The first lesson" is C. a parent.
The poem tells a story about a parent and his daughter in a pool or some other water, and the parent is teaching his kid how to swim. Of course, the whole poem is a metaphor - it's not really about swimming, but an important lesson that a parent has to teach his child about life itself.
The news media coverage of infectious diseases makes them seem much worse than they really are. For example the Ebola outbreak was made to seem much worse than it was. People feared catching the virus but very few people did. So in conclusion news coverage of infectious diseases just scars us and makes the disease seem like a terrible plague
Answer: I think it's true
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