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RobertoSaviano
Rädslan för covid-19 är kraftigt överdriven i sverige. Den är under kontroll än så länge och håller sig de som är sjuka hemma istället för att gå och jobba/gå till skolorna kommer det här blåsa över lagom till April börjar.
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How do People React in a Pandemic?
Reactions and overreactions
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.
For example, a person might go get Tamiflu, even though the government thinks that they shouldn't.
The knee-jerk reaction of overreacting early to a potential crisis is extremely useful. Like other knee-jerk reflexes, it protects us. People who have gone through it come out on the other side calmer and better able to cope. People become able to cope with a crisis by going through an adjustment reaction, either in mid-crisis, in which case they're late in coping, or they do that in advance of the crisis, in which case they are ready to cope.
We want people to have this reaction early rather than late, and the way to accomplish that is to guide the adjustment reaction, rather than trashing it, as it seems officials often do and journalists sometimes do.
Denial versus panic
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.