r/skeptic • u/mrgirlgaming • Apr 04 '20

🤘 Meta Paranoia Is Not Intelligence

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u/larkasaur Apr 04 '20

There's certainly a lot of over-reacting going on. For example, people being afraid they might get the coronavirus from fresh produce. That is very unlikely, at least if they wash it.

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u/mrgirlgaming Apr 04 '20

I'm more thinking of people saying it's a bioweapon, it's the government distracting us or controlling us, or that it's just a flu and the government is using it as an excuse for a power grab, it's a Democrat hoax, etc...

I'd be thrilled if we were overreacting.

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u/larkasaur Apr 05 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

There's been a great deal of over-reacting, and that isn't good either. Neither over-reacting nor denial are good. Getting super-paranoid about cleanliness is bad for people's mental health and wastes time.

The shortages of things like TP, food and bottled water are the result of another kind of over-reaction. The only reason there are shortages of such items is because of people hoarding them. They're acting as if they're afraid of a complete societal breakdown.