Thread by @UpfrontBricks

Imagine you're in a sudden disaster like a burning building, sinking ship, airplane crash, where your goal is to get out quickly before you die.

Now, you would think that everyone around you would have the same goal, right?

Researchers in disaster behavior know otherwise.

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The most cited proportions (reference in final tweet) are:

1) 10-15% will have their wits about them, understand the danger of staying put, devise a plan to escape, and act on that plan.

Covid-aware folks are in this small minority, but may be doubting their sanity.

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2) "The second group, comprising approximately 75% of the population, will be stunned and bewildered, showing impaired reasoning and sluggish thinking. They will behave in a reflexive, almost automatic manner."

This is the maskless majority of folks living their 2019 lives.
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3) 10-15% will "show a high degree of counterproductive behavior adding to their danger (uncontrolled weeping, confusion, screaming, and paralyzing anxiety).

These are most similar to 'loud' minimizers who blame every post-covid complication on the 'jab' or 'face-diapers'.

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Rather than a single disaster leaving you perplexed why others are acting so irrationally, this has been ongoing for months/years, as more Covid protections are dropped.

So, like some disaster ground-hog-day, you wake up daily wanting to escape a flaming/sinking structure,
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only to encounter indifference/hostility.

Press on. You're not insane. Keep trying to escape.

Reference: John Leach (2004) Why People ‘Freeze’ in an Emergency: Temporal and Cognitive Constraints on Survival Responses Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. 75/6.

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