When I made this post yesterday the whole first page of Unread Posts were Corona Virus related with the exception of maybe one or two threads. There are umpteen other places you can go to get your dose of Corona Virus discussions, there's only really one where you can go to get a bit of Irish finance/money-matters/consumer-issues.
I also don't think it's socially responsible to encourage too many areas of our lives to be dominated by something like this, heigtening the sense of panic. Facebook and Twitter are doing enough damage without piling more sources on top.
What I think probably would be reasonable is to allow topics that are related to both a forum's purpose and Corona Virus to exist in that forum, rather than in the Corona Virus forum. So for example this stuff about mortgage providers allowing payments to be paused while the crisis continues; totally justifiable for a topic like this to be in the Mortgage Arrears forum and thus appear on the Unread Posts feed. Heck I want to see threads like that when I come to a money forum. What I have no interest in seeing are threads about the number of new cases today, whether kids should be able to play in the street etc. in that feed.