I don't think that day-to-day danger is without personal cost, even for people who are "resilient". My experiences with living in various levels of dangerous si

I don't think that day-to-day danger is without personal cost, even for people who are "resilient". My experiences with living in various levels of dangerous situations[1] is that people become "politely selfish" in direct proportion to the level of risk. If you're doing okay it's not a problem, but the people at the bottom of society are the first to lose support when this happens. In the case of the US, I think a lot of the insane response we've gotten is because of a combination of two things. First, we've not had real personal danger within our borders in most of our lifetimes. Second, media has learned that it's profitable to sell fear. The result is a bunch of manufactured fears, that aren't rationally actionable because they don't exist to begin with, and we become accustomed to reacting irrationally to fear and not looking too closely at our responses because ultimately there's no consequence to doing something ineffective in response to a danger that doesn't exist. But when a real danger like Covid 19 comes along, people don't have a rational set of coping mechanisms honed against previous real dangers, so they react to a real danger the same way they've reacted to a bunch of nonexistent, media-manufactured dangers in the past. If people post about how WiFi causes cancer[2] on Facebook and then do nothing to avoid WiFi, that's not great, but it isn't critical. But if people post about Covid19 danger on Facebook and then do nothing to avoid Covid19, at a societal level that causes the disease to spread and kill more people. [1] I did live in Israel, although that's not what I'm talking about. I was 5-6 so I'm not sure how relevant that experience is. [2] I'm not saying WiFi causes cancer.