How people are degrading from the global panic around the coronavirus

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I’m watching. Of course, surprise gradually passes into the next stage - stunnedness. Then it remains only to quietly go crazy, because well, you need to somehow exist in a world where the majority is simply inadequate?

Is it possible to call adequate people who, in a fit of insanity (I simply have no other word), buy up cereals, flour, pasta, canned food?

Is it possible to call adequate people who reason with a clever look, "analyzing" the possible spread rate, the consequences of the coronavirus, without having the knowledge to do so?

And now the first ones sweep everything off the shelves, because "tomorrow it might be too late", and the second …

By the way, in general, who can be qualified as experts in the "second" category?

If you think with your head, then infectious disease doctors, and only they. All other iksperts are about nothing for a talk show. For the most part, they have no idea about the essence of the issue and the maximum they can is to voice something written by others with their mouths. Or carry a gag in the style of all-Russian talking heads. Blizzard, to quote Putin.

But we have a free and type of advanced country, which means that everyone has the right to express their Personal Opinion. Slava I do not know to whom, that not everyone is allowed to exercise this right.

But, in principle, there is enough of what is. Officials from the Ministry of Health, officials from various medical departments, and so on. Those who, even if they have a medical diploma, are most likely either not used for their intended purpose for a single day, or like some judges.

Now the question is ripe for many: who, then, to believe? According to the author?

According to the author, an expert is a virologist, microbiologist, infectious disease doctor, epidemiologist. The staff of departments at universities and research institutes of virology, microbiology, infectious diseases are quite suitable for the role of literate people who understand the issue.

Here are them, and only them, you need to listen, watch and read.

Floormate, colleague at work, biology teachers, zoologists, veterinarians, surgeons and ophthalmologists are NOT experts on coronavirus.

Difficult to grasp, isn't it?

And then this falls from the TV screens … Do not wash it twice with Silit.

The utter chaos of recent years, which has finally destroyed social elevators, has spawned a tribe of officials, terrifying in their ignorance, who are unable to put two words together or even think about what they say.

But the total stupidity of the masses is also not excluded from the accounts. For it is worth one organism from the TV screen to say profoundly that "it seems, khana", and right there the crowds rush to react with a joyful howl.

Well, how is it, in a month the end of the world, and our buckwheat is not stocked! And there is no toilet paper at the rate of 5 rolls per day!

You know, I don't know who invented the coronavirus there, who ate (or what else did) that bat, but in reality there is a much more serious problem.

We have a pandemic of idiocy.

Moreover, there are already so many infected that the coronavirus bursts with envy. And there are already victims. And they will.

I know one for sure. A granny was taken to an emergency hospital in my city with a fractured hip. On a travolator (it's like an escalator, only without steps, if anyone does not know) in a shopping center, she was hit by a trolley loaded to such an extent that the stops that should hold the trolley did not work on the slope. That is, the overload is obvious.

Well, by the way, they swept out "Lenta" completely.

This is idiocy, dear readers. It is clear that toilet paper does not seem to rot, canned food will come in handy and everything else. Well, yes, and buckwheat. The symbol of any nix.

It's surprising how dull we are.

Of course, the reason is primarily a decrease in intelligence. Everywhere. And technological advances. I myself, I honestly admit, do not use it, but they say on the Web ("Pikabu" I believe) that 80% of the panic was induced using WhatsApp, where there is a mountain of chats for all sorts of mothers who have nothing to do with themselves. But who are happy to demonstrate intelligence, or rather, its complete absence.

And, of course, pensioners. But for these people, this kind of sport is fun. They are familiar.

The main thing is just to believe. Believe in any nonsense that comes with a delayed signal to the chat. Continue to ACT! Without delay! As someone here said, we have no time to swing!

Therefore, you need to act on the points, packing gauze dressings, disinfectant gels, toilet paper, buckwheat and pasta.

And that's all, and we sit and wait for the end of the world. That is, the coming of the Coronavirus.

And if he doesn’t come?

Nothing, if it doesn't come, something will also come up. They came up with the idea of finding a person who looked like the respected doctor Roshal, who, with a seemingly serious face, said to the camera (I don’t know how he didn’t laugh, the actor is probably a professional one) that to prevent coronavirus, you need to eat a head of garlic every day.

We must now express our enormous human gratitude to both Leonid Mikhailovich himself and his colleagues from Komsomolskaya Pravda, who very quickly made material with Roshal, where he debunked this nonsense.

Although he said in an interview that he, Leonid Roshal, is a pediatric surgeon, not an infectious disease specialist, and that it is necessary to listen not to him, but to specialized specialists. But this is Roshal, one of the smartest people of our time … He can afford this.

But right away there were those who believed and rushed … First for garlic, then … No, can you imagine how a person who ate a head of garlic in the morning on an empty stomach should smell? I know. My neighbor is "smart".

Alas, this is already at the programming level. Information idiocy is contagious and deadly. A person who is infected with AI (information idiocy) becomes defenseless against any suggestion, especially against one that carries the following trigger points (the term was just given by the doctor, this point is the focus of tissue hyper-irritability, painful when squeezed):

- a link to an authoritative, well-known person, always with a photo;

- similar voice when demonstrating the recording;

- similar appearance in the video;

- information on protection against mortal danger;

- exposure of "hidden facts";

- the obvious cheapness, simplicity and availability of the sounded method.

Surely everyone has seen an advertisement on the Internet: “A way to increase potency by 60 times has been found! It turned out to be an ordinary Soviet …"

The most interesting thing is the number of idiots who follow the link, buy don’t understand what, and then flood “Yaplakal” and “Pikabu” with tears. Crooks, swindlers, lit, the money was stolen …

Why doesn't anyone even think about the fact that everything Soviet remained there in the nineties?

Because it is not necessary. Because the information virus of idiocy is already firmly in the skull and requires simple and accessible information. And as a result, the person stunned by him simply does not think about the information he receives. Doesn't think at all. He perceives it as Truth, does not subject it to the slightest doubt, does not allow any criticism.

And, most importantly, he is in a hurry to share this "important" information with family, friends and relatives …

Yes, the same "maximum repost".

And this despite the fact that today you don't even need a computer, a smartphone is enough. No need to poke tiny buttons, there is Alice, there is Siri, there is Okeygugol. They will hear you, they will try to help you.

Although, Alice, of course, she turned out to be a bitch.

No, it's easier to take everything that is in the budget and rush to the nearest hypermarket to … To take part in the purchasing orgy there. Thus demonstrating the level of their infection with informidiocy.

Moreover, the level is very easily calculated by the degree of load on the trolley.

In "Ashan" they generally went to meet the sick and the infected, having assembled the so-called "alarmist cart" in advance. I came, I saw, I drove away.

Hypermarkets, of course, will benefit from the sudden sale without discounts. By the way, I am sure that it is they who are responsible for the fact that the panic mode was activated in sick people with subsequent filling.

But why did I start all this? Of course, not in order to mock those who have already gone and dragged home all this wealth.

Quite the opposite.

I consider information idiocy to be a very serious disease that needs to be monitored, localized and treated. Thank goodness the standard knit and prick is not required yet.

But you need to control your relatives, loved ones and, first of all, yourself. Watching for possible signs of AI.

How can you identify information idiocy in a person?

It's simple. The signs are as follows:

- rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils, tension of the facial muscles of the face;

- increasing the volume and emotionality of the voice;

- excitement, gestures;

- a keen desire to share the information received. To carry, so to speak, the truth to the masses.

If you find such signs in yourself or in someone else (especially the last one), then I would recommend (not a doctor, but I will allow myself this) to you first of all to break off contact with an information source.

And the faster you do it, the easier it will be for you later.

Get some exercise. For example, 10 push-ups from the floor. If you are pinned at work, then 10 squats. Then wash yourself with cold water. And remember to wash your hands after push-ups with hot water and soap. Coronavirus prevention will be done at the same time.

After squats, you can also wash your hands. Just like that, for prevention.

Then pause for 15-20 minutes. If the urge has not passed and you are still drawn to take active action based on the information received, then ask your friends for help. Take someone, in your opinion, the most adequate, and preferably two. Show them this information and carefully ask what they think about it.

If their reaction is negative (especially with the use of abusive expressions), it is worth refusing to use the source of information. Channel One of television and TK Zvezda can be ignored without waiting for a reaction.

If the listed measures do not help you, if you continue to pull for exploits, then you should seek help from specialists (provided that there is a medical facility of the corresponding profile within reach). Specifically - to psychotherapists. They will definitely help.

Recommendations for a massive outbreak of information idiocy:

1. First of all, pay attention to the source of information: is it an expert, that is, is the speaker / writer a specialist in the issue under discussion.

2. Check for yourself any information received, even the most stunning.

3. If there are no comments from the experts specified in paragraph 1, if the source of information is not an expert, politely ignore both the source and the information.

4. Do not try to argue with infected information idiocy. The chance of achieving a positive effect without special training is vanishingly small. The chance to cause an outbreak of aggression, quarrel, assault and other destructive consequences is great. Whether it is worth coming into conflict with a person who does not control his neural networks is a question.

5. If your loved one who lives in the same space with you turns out to be infected, try to carefully isolate the infected person from information sources and switch his attention to any practical activity that requires active physical participation: arrange cleaning with washing window panes, clean up the garage, dig up a vegetable garden.

6. Isolate the suspect of infection as much as possible from the possibilities of implementing obsessions and plans, such as organizing rallies, processions, speeches, purchases in the hypermarket.

The main thing is not to panic. AI is contagious, and the virus, unlike its signature brother, affects only the brain. However, recovery is not just possible, it is possible to develop immunity for a later period.

Information idiocy is much more dangerous than the coronavirus. It is a fact. But with the correct organization of the process, even he is not terrible.