Frankly, I can live my life very differently than most people, because I can do my work anywhere. I can pick up and leave at any time, which I will be doing soon, and do whenever I choose. So, my life really does not apply to most lives, where people have jobs they must go to daily, and/or kids in schools.
I am posting my point of view because I have noticed, intriguingly, that people are separating into two camps, either high anxiety (running out to get Cipro, gas masks etc, which I evaluated myself early on and decided was basically useless) or rather amazing denial of risk. I think there is a balance between the two and I'm trying to point that out, and I'm finding the repsonses here seem to focus on "me" as somebody "scared", almost a little condescending toward me (and I'm not taking this personally--I'm seeing it as a defense on the part of the posters, so they don't have to take what I'm saying seriously.)
This kind of denial is hardwired into the brain, I guess. For instance, people choose to live on earthquake faults--consciously choose that. |
