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I don't know if it will help others, but a few viewpoints that have (perhaps strangely) helped me: 1. Strictly limiting my social media consumption. Lots of pe
by lukev 7y ago
I don't know if it will help others, but a few viewpoints that have (perhaps strangely) helped me:
1. Strictly limiting my social media consumption. Lots of people are stress posting as their own coping mechanism and if you consume it all day it inevitably takes an emotional toll.
2. This is a once-in-a-generation event. It's ok if things get cancelled or pushed back. It's nobody's fault. Everyone will understand and do the best they can.
3. You aren't in control of the national/global situation. Despite all the armchair epidemiologists on this site, the reality is the vast majority of us are simply riding it out. Embracing a lack of agency can be freeing (for me, at least).
4. Aside from the disease itself, I don't think there's a realistic scenario where livelihood itself is in danger. Supply chains for staple items are in fine shape (shortages are a result of short-term panic buying.) Lots of people are going to get laid off, but unemployment exists and even the GOP seem eager to provide enough aid to pull people through.
5. Everything is going to change, and that's ok. It's mostly scary because we don't know what the new normal will look like. But whatever that is, normality _will_ return, and though it isn't a universal law, humanity tends to do a pretty good job of righting itself after adversity. If anything, our periods of societal decline tend to come from too much stability and rot from within, rather than external hardship.