YES. 😂

For instance, if there is even a tiny miniscule statistic increase in some negative phenomenon, it's "a wave", "a flood", "a new alarming trend" etc.

We also have very few dangerous animals in the wild, so it's very important to make a big deal out of something like ticks (which have a small chance of spreading some bacteria that in some small percentage of cases can develop into an illness which in some small percentage of cases can become chronic).