Legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher announcing his retirement. (Photo : YouTube/ Ayrton01CZ)
Michael Schumacher and his health updates are one of the highly talked about and inquired information in the sporting world right now. Despite coming out from coma, irresponsible reports and jokes regarding his health status still proliferates online. Thus, causing unhappiness to his family and close friend.
It can be remembered that series of rumors and speculations were reported online regarding the health condition of the legendary F1 racer. Since the skiing accident in the French Alps, where the racer smashed his head on a rock, Schumacher's family has been shielding their privacy from prying eyes of the press and some fans.
"We just have to accept that the family wants to continue to protect their privacy," Express quoted Sabine Kehm, Schumacher's manager, as saying.
However, such act did not stop reports and malicious write-ups from appearing online. After a long period of silence and selective revelations on the status of the F1 legend's health, series of projections and speculations were published both online and in print media.
In some instances, the health or even the rumored "Michael Schumacher's death" has been the center of attention. And this false stories that are circulating online is making not only the family of the F1 legend unhappy but as well as his close associates. On some occasion, the health or even death of the racer has been subject to insensitive April Fool's joke.
On a different note, some fans and followers of the recovery of the legendary racers believe that if only a press conference is given, the speculations will immediately disappear. For comments from the racer's friend and some associates will go on until something official is to be presented to the millions of fans who care deeply about the F1 racer's health.
In one of the reports coming from a German magazine, it was presented that Schumacher can walk with the help of a therapist, a statement coming from a family friend. The said report was even headlined, "He can walk again," according to TheGuardian. But Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm, described the report as irresponsible and not true.
With the continuous thirst for knowledge or information on the racer's health, fans seemed to become more curious and concern, given the various reports circulating online. However, one should realize that despite the noble intention, going beyond the boundaries of another's private life may not be justified for the said purpose of gaining substantial information and quenching the thirst for trivial curiosity.
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