I don't understand the fear I am witnessing

Smokers are a higher risk with Corona.
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Not Cannabis. Started 12 years ago and have NEVER been sick

I eat alot of kiwi and blueberries though

Right, this is people that don’t know the ocean. Their lives revolve between working at the gas station and the vfw for beer.

So true my friend.

When you have learned to trust in God things are a lot better.

Hard thing to do.
Love to you!

Spiritual battle, indeed. Unfortunately, it's a lopsided battle at the moment.

Not to be crude, but I offer two simple words of advice.

Fuck fear.

I’d say your current position is = to your fear.

Nurses and doctors are probably pretty scared. My husband HAS to work and he flies to and walks through so many different airports, we’re frightened.


If you have control of your situation, your risk is lower than those with no control. Just my opinion.

That is really not true, and it isn't a test for your Belief.

Continual reinfection and irreversible compounding organ damage by an extremely contagious bio-weapon 10x more deadly as normal flu.

see OP?

not to mention society breakdown and riots, race war, home invasions, etc.

According to the New York Times, the CDC is projecting that up to 214 million Americans could eventually become infected…

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

That is in America.

That is from the CDC.

Worst case but now you understand the fear.

Don't fall for the flu comparisons.

Simple.

It's been spreading there a lot longer, and a lot more is
known about Italy compared to many other places.

One can look to Iran and China as well, but those are often
dismissed due to being more 'foreign,' among other issues.

Those who are prepared do not have to go out into the
panicked, irrational, and possibly infected crowds at all.
What's the downside?

Those who were gradually preparing for weeks did not cause
the shortages.

Shortages are being caused by those who did not previously
prepare. (And the 'scalpers'.)

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Remember the End of the World Day one March years ago?

I saw people I knew to be above average intelligence and not particularly religious throwing off a manic vibe— laughing too loudly, probably feeling dissociated and unreal. There was no reason to believe it was the end of the world— some old coot of a preacher said it was— but some people became alarmed— and emotions— limbic states— pass through peiooe like wildfire.

I’d trained to stay grounded and centered in real crisis. I do it well. I still felt the emotional tide of the grocery store that day.

They had a young cashier terrified. When he sensed I was normal he teared up and asked me if the world was going to end. I told him it would not. Tomorrow would come as usual.

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Another time in the same grocery store a Colorado snow storm kept trucks from delivering produce. After two or three days snowed in I Wanted to see people and buy salad greens, dug out the car with help from laughing neighbors.. it was festive.

In the store the produce bins showed their metal bottoms! Trucks had arrived and more would follow. The snow was cleared and no longer falling. Everyone else had come out for Starbucks and salad greens too. Still, it was freaky and I put seven bunches of romaine and all the radishes in my cart — grab it while you can!— then regained my senses and bought or bunch of romaine and one bunch of radishes. Still looking at the empty bins made me WANT to grab it all and RUN! KNOWING tomorrow the store would be perfectly normal.

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Thats describing normal situations— a silly joke hoax and a snowstorm in Colorado

This one is more serious. There is a REAL (manufactured) crisis. Someone is manipulating fear— maybe by manipulating shortages— maybe crashing the economy.

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Some are less conscious than others. They pick up the energy of crowds and don’t know how to ground and discharge it. They act automatically, sometimes bizarrely, a drunken chain smoking zombie out buying toilet paper not entirely sure why fits that category I think.

Subconsciously everyone knows their "economy" is over.

It's the unknown and the mixed messages folks are getting from what they consider authority figures. One virologist says to have three months of supplies so you can practice social distancing and then some infectious disease expert says settle down there's nothing to worry about.

The lack of a solid opinion on this is creating the panic. People that don't see potential issues early and stock up over time now think they've waited too late and are in panic mode.

I saw some of those people when I went shopping today. I think from your description these are the people who don't have money to prep. They are walking around with 1 tiny roll of toilet paper, seeing the shelves empty and other people with carts full of food prepping and they can't afford to buy anything. They are feeling scared because they are feeling like they are f*cked.

It's not just fear of one's own death (unlikely for most), but death of family and friends. It is also justified fear of a domestic/world economic collapse that we all know is built as a house of cards. It is fear of the unknown of how long people will be forced to stay in isolation from all of society (not a problem for hardcore glp'rs). One big event, such as this, could collapse it all in one fell swoop and lead to long-term despair that makes the 1929-31 era look like a party at Disneyland.

The current numbers on COVID-19 are not even worth talking about or referencing in regards to the virulence/potency of this disease. The fear is in the potential of what this particular strain of disease is capable of. In regards to this event, lend your ears only to people who live in the realm of science in virology and/or epidemiology with no political agenda in either direction. That means drown out 99% of the barking idiots on your television set.

Yeah, that was me. I always look like that when I shop.

Yes. A lot of people are/were not capable to prepare because they are just not as rich as all the 'preppers'. Of course one can prepare gradually, one roll of toilet paper at a time (that is not even possible) ha!

I understand preppers with all bunkers and such, but think it is very egoistical to buy all shelves empty for themselves.

Situations in a lot of countries changed so rapidly that not everyone (perhaps only on GLP) was aware enough so soon.

Yes I am afraid too. That it wil get worse. That it will only be 'ME ME!' More than it ever was...

Yeah, I am late to this thread but, we have serious problems ahead.

Everyone calm down...more people die from falling off a ladder every year than this Virus has produced.

But, let's shut down the world.
There is an 'Agenda' being implemented, and if you can't see it now...you never will.

Buckle up, the NWO is coming with a vengeance. We are, just in the way.

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It's not so much the fear of lack of sanitizer, food, and toilet paper.

It's really about Fear of The Unknown.

There are so many questions swirling.

The principal one being: Why the hell are they doing this? This meaning: shutdowns, quarantines, stock fluctuations, etc.

People are afraid because deep down inside they know something is brewing, and it's bigger than any of us can imagine IMO.

This is the last redpill, last chance to wake up

Now you can see how much control the media has over your minds.

absolute hysteria

low IQs

And way bigger than is being revealed.

No way the world shuts down over...6.5 thousand people world wide, out of 7.6 Billion.

seems like a hang nail compared to cancer deaths or pool drownings...IDK

Something else is known by world leaders that we are not privy to.


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Coronaviruses are a group of viruses known for causing the common cold. They have a halo or crown-like (corona) appearance when viewed under an electron microscope.

I live pretty much every day quarantined in my home. When you are immunocompromised you get used to life like this.
No biggie.

I'm doing ok thus far. How are y'all doin?

It’s better than all that Trump shit.

Italy and China is still out of control from this thing. What makes you think it will be over by then if it's said that we're two weeks behind Italy? By the way, I hope you're right.(about things being back to normal in two weeks)

My daughter-in-law went back to teach after having a baby in December ... now she can stay home with the baby and work online during nap Time!

Perfect!

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