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I think it’s hard to understand for a lot of people. I know it is for me. If you’re cooped up at home, working remotely but basically normally and haven’t reall

I think it’s hard to understand for a lot of people. I know it is for me. If you’re cooped up at home, working remotely but basically normally and haven’t really been impacted by things so far other than the inconvenience it’s pretty easy to expect things will just go back to normal. All the local indicators aren’t visible and the news slips into this comfortably surreal space where there is a dream like dissonance between life and the reality outside our own homes.

netsharc 7y ago
Your comment got me thinking, there must be a lot of anxious people out there, out without a job and/or worried about dying. At least where I live the social system is very robust (here's hoping my judgement is right), so there should be less of said anxiety; in India there are millions of day workers who had zero savings before the crisis and are now jobless and homeless, and unable to travel to their hometowns because the train network is shutdown. A week or two more of the shutdown and there will probably be riots there. Elsewhere, anxiety will lead to bad behaviors and crimes...