This is exactly what I'm talking about. The actions of every government of the world show that they do not consider this a "mild contagion". They are combatting it as if it's a threat to their country. This includes our own government who are having an unprecedented response to it. There have been and still are mass quarantines in every country where it has struck. Schools and businesses have been closed in every country where it has struck. In short EVERY country on the face of the earth is doing everything they possibly can to slow or stop its spread.
And yet many look at these CLEAR warning signs and react EXACTLY like below:
"It can result in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. They also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. "
Almost NOBODY has experienced this before. Therefore it's 100% certain that there is normalcy bias present. The warnings are there but people will minimize them by saying "it only affects asians. It only affects 3rd world countries. It only affects the really sick. It only affects smokers. etc etc." It is the text book examples of looking at warnings in the most optimistic ways possible.
“The actions of every government of the world show that they do not consider this a “mild contagion”. They are combating it as if it’s a threat to their country.”
How do we know that, given the extreme dishonesty of the so-called news media?
I have the sense that I’m being gaslighted, but I don’t know which side is doing it.
LOL, normalcy bias in a thread about normalcy bias. how strange and interesting people are.
Interesting. I’m one whose brain automatically sees potential hazards or negative consequences ahead and do what I can to prevent them if possible. Quick example is seeing an appliance cord sprawled out on the floor (my daughter will do this) as a trip hazard and I’ll move it up against the wall or wrap it up if she’s done with it. Put up those sticky wedges on furniture corners so the kids are safer running around etc. Thinking through scenarios ahead of time can prevent problems, and why wouldn’t anyone wish to do so?
May I introduce you to the 1976 Swine Flu panic?
Love how people forget the past, and assume everything is unprecedented.
How about another important bias? Recency bias.