GLP anon blogger talks about how IGNORANT usa ppl are of the PANDEMIC danger
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I am going to make a long post, and try to explain what I think is happening.
The reason there is not panic.
1.The information is not reaching people. This is actually true. I know people that have no clue this is even happening. It is hardly mentioned on social media,and is trivialized in "mainstream media". And when it is mentioned they say things like only in China, and that leaves readers/viewers with the opinion that this is not going to impact their life. IT WILL, AND SOON
2. If they do actually understand the news and that it is pandemic.They have seen the horrors going on, they cannot change how they mentally view the world as they know it. It is called normalcy bias. 70% of the entire population experience this during a disaster. Be it a hurricane, earth quake or a pandemic.
Normalcy Bias: is a belief people hold when there is a possibility of a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the likelihood of a disaster and its possible effects, because people believe that things will always function the way things normally have functioned. This may result in situations where people fail to adequately prepare themselves for disasters, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. About 70% of people reportedly display normalcy bias in disasters.
You have heard it on the news over and over. Wildfire tears apart a neighbor hood....the people "I cannot believe this happened here" .. While standing in the ashes. It had never even occurred to them that it could happen. Even while standing in the ashes. They had a hard time wrapping their head around it ,the fact that everything they thought was normal was gone. That it could and did already happen.
Then you have people who already have something or someone to blame. Despite understanding it is happening, they want a mental belief of why it will not effect them. They find a piece of information that makes them feel safe. They research it more, based on the idea now in their head they are some how "safer" than some other group.
You can see the exact same thing happening in those who think it is only going to infect/kill some ethnic group, blood type, or in some distant nation...etc.
It makes them feel safer. The more that believe what they do the better they feel. They can accept the horror is happening, just not that it will happen to them.
Sadly another form of bias.
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Then the 'reasonable' people. They already have something in mind to blame. Something like say a vaccines, but it could have been anything. Someone's diet. Someone created a bio weapon. Some corporation. A government. Even climate change. As long as there is a reason they can wrap their head around, they will believe it.
Point being they think there is a reason it is happening,that they understand.It gives them someone to blame,making them feel superior,or safer because of the information they believe. It makes the disaster understandable to them. Most of this group are still in the 70% who can not comprehend the idea that it can happen in their life, where they live, or in there country etc. Still hanging on like 70% will do until they are the one standing in the ashes in shock (if they survive).
Last large group: Those who think someone or something will save them if anything bad happens they can not handle.
Be it the government, a doctor they know, or a religion they believe in. Most will blame what they currently think is going to save them, when they see that it is not going to. Also most this group are in the 70% who have normalcy bias, but not all.
The rare group.The probably 2-5% understand they and they alone are responsible for taking action to assure their own survival.
They do not need a reason this is happening. They understand it is tough,and are mentally preparing for it. They are doing things in their life to prepare as best they can. They do not need to place blame anywhere, it is not going to help at all.There does not have to be a reason. It is a pandemic ,and they would like to survive it.
We need more in that very small group. They can actually help each other.
I wrote this on another site, In three parts, slightly edited to put it here.
I think we are in trouble.The world as a whole. I do not think this is something that will be "fixed" anytime soon. I think there are many huge changes that are going to come.
Most will have almost no mental preparation to accept things are not going back to "normal" for either quite awhile, and possibly never.
Just my random thoughts I put into words trying to organize in my mind what I am dealing with currently, and what the future may look like. I really hope we somehow dodge all of this. I hope to be wrong.
I think I am at the acceptance stage. Life, commerce, and most of what is normal is about to not be. There will be horror and death, not seen in any of our life times (unless you are in Wuhan).
It feels odd, but peaceful. None of it will come as a shock to me. The news will not captivate me or my attention. My life will go on in a different way. I am taking this window and spending more time with friends and family. I am worried, but not panicked. I am worried about everyone that can not or will not accept we are in a global pandemic which will change everything.
You are all loved. Be well, be safe, and help each other when ever and where ever you can.
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Here are other key developments this week:
The outbreak just keeps growing. This week saw the number of cases reported in the outbreak more than double worldwide. The US has worked to get Americans out of China.
There are about 300 people arriving from Wuhan on Friday aboard what could be the final two flights chartered by the State Department.
US citizens returning from China on commercial flights are being rerouted to one of 11 airports that can handle extra health screenings. Those passengers may be subject to quarantine, according to new federal rules that went into effect Sunday. The 11 designated commercial airports where planes carrying US citizens returning from China must land are: John F. Kennedy in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Honolulu, Dallas, Detroit, Newark and Washington's Dulles.
(Editor's note -- This is insane, the virus cannot be effectively screened for so US gov't is gonna spread it like wildfire IN THESE 11 metros. ALL FLITES FROM CHINA SHOULD BE HALTED. Why has Trump not done this?)
More than 7,300 people are being quarantined on two cruise ships docked in Hong Kong and Japan over concerns they were inadvertently exposed to the coronavirus by infected passengers. At least 61 people from all over the world have tested positive for coronavirus in the cruise ship docked in Japan, including 11 Americans.