Posted on 03/24/2020 11:29:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
People’s refusal to panic has been a great source of frustration for the establishment in recent years. ‘The planet is burning’, they lie, in relation to climate change, and yet we do not weep or wail or even pay very much attention. ‘I want you to panic’, instructs the newest mouthpiece of green apocalypticism, Greta Thunberg, and yet most of us refuse to do so. A No Deal Brexit would unleash economic mayhem, racist pogroms and even a pandemic of super-gonorrhoea, they squealed, incessantly, like millenarian preachers balking at the imminent arrival of the lightning bolt of final judgement, and yet we didn’t flinch. We went to work. We went home. We still supported Brexit.
Our skittish elites have been so baffled, infuriated in fact, by our calm response to their hysterical warnings that they have invented pathologies to explain our unacceptable behaviour. The therapeutic language of ‘denialism’ is used to explain the masses’ refusal to fret over climate change. Environmentalists write articles on ‘the psychology of climate-change denial’, on ‘the self-deception and mass denial’ coursing through this society that refuses to flatter or engage with the hysteria of the eco-elites. Likewise, the refusal of voters to succumb to the dire, hollow warnings of the ferociously anti-Brexit wing of the establishment was interpreted by self-styled experts as a psychological disorder. ‘[This is] people taking action for essentially psychological reasons, irrespective of the economic cost’, said one professor.
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They’ve scored on this one. The corona virus has LOTS of people scared out of their socks.
Self-ping for later.
And I, for one, am concerned but not panicking.
People in the West are so used to nothing going seriously wrong that they don’t understand things not going seriously wrong is an historical abnormality.
No I disagree... people aren’t scared. They are self-isolating out of deference to their neighbors and community. We are all going to have to face COVID-19 exposure sometime and most of us will not be affected by it. Of those who are affected, 99% will survive. That’s not something to lie in fear of, and I think most people know it.
I agree.
I don’t see panic or hysteria. What I did see a week ago, was a few people speculating by buying out the toilet paper supplies, and a lot of people planning on being shut in for a couple of weeks.
I went to the pharmacy today and just saw a few people going out of their way to be courteous.
I was in Lowe’s today and other than the sign on the door saying “Closing evenings 8pm due to Coronavirus restrictions” there was no sign of anything abnormal at all. I was pleasantly surprised.
” That’s not something to lie in fear of, and I think most people know it.”
I’m in a facebook group that’s for my city, not a big city. LOTS of the posters there are terrified.
Was at my local Meijer store yesterday evening was finally able to get a loaf of bread and some hamburger buns. Apparently some suppliers are doubling their deliveries from once in the early morning to another in the afternoon.
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