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I choose the secret "How do People React in a Pandemic?" It is very interesting and surprising, that we match our behavior with special circ**stances.
When people initially become aware of a risk, they overreact. They have a temporary short-term overreaction. People pause what they're doing, become hyper-vigilant, check out the environment more carefully than they normally would and, this is perhaps the most important characteristic of the adjustment reaction, they take precautions that may be excessive, may be inappropriate, and are certainly premature.
The problem isn’t panic. The problem is denial. Denial is why panic is rare. We are equipped with a circuit breaker and when we're about to panic, we go into denial instead. Denial is not useful in that people in denial don't take precautions, but it's preferable to panic. People who are panicking do themselves harm. Those who are in denial don't accomplish much, but at least they don't make things any worse. Denial is nature's way of protecting us from the horrible effects of panic and, whereas panic is rare, denial is extremely common.
We need conscious effort on the part of both the sources and on the part of journalists to protect people from denial by seducing them out of denial.
There are five principle bulwarks against denial:
First we want to legitimize fear by don't feeling entitled to be afraid, than we have things to do to bear the fear, we decide which things to do, we try to love each other to make us able to bear the fear and finally we hate something to enable us to bear the fear and hang in there without tripping the circuit breaker into denial.
The Five stages of reaction to a disaster:
First we would like to save ourselves, than we help other people, try to blame someone, take action against the disaster and finally we adapt to the threat!
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