On December 31, 2019, a previously unknown pneumonia was detected for the first time in Wuhan, China. This virus, later named COVID-19, would then completely change the world as we knew it. The relationship between knowledge and fear is one that has been contested with two prevalent schools of thought; is ignorance bliss, or is knowledge security. This project surveyed 109 people and utilized a Google Form. The form consisted of three parts, the first of which being a background question asking about location and age, the second part was a short seven question background knowledge questionnaire about the virus, and the third part was ranking questions for fear, anxiety, and impact. For this data set, the chi-squared test for association and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient were utilized to assess the data for statistically significant connections as levels of impact, anxiety and fear are ordinal data. There were highly statistically significant associations between: fear and anxiety; anxiety and accuracy; and fear and accuracy, and  highly statistically significant negative correlations between: anxiety and accuracy; and fear and accuracy. This project suggests that knowledge is linked to lower anxiety and fear levels, contrary to the popular belief that ignorance is bliss.