“Panic can do much more damage than the virus.”
Chalk that up to what it means to be human. Animals have a fight-or-flight response to real and present danger. We have that maddening ability to go a step beyond and imagine what isn’t there.
Already some stores are seeing dwindling supplies of toilet paper and water as residents perhaps prepared to self-quarantine for two weeks. A dearth of N95 face masks ledaccused of price-gouging consumers. This comes despite experts saying face masks provide little real protection. “Look for outlets that treat you like an adult and tell you what the situation is and the risks are,” he says. “You need information that helps you make decisions relevant to your own circumstances.”
For example, she says, in San Francisco, it's far more likely to be killed by a car than COVID-19, “but cars are something we know, we’re comfortable with them, so they’re not scary even though they’re far more deadly.”Terror of the unknown and indeed the foreign plays into the planet’s epidemic. The ugly human tendency to scapegoat, then as now, surfaces.
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