First let me say that nobody like having a new virus introduced to the world every now and then like this escaping from the labs of biological weapons of some country's government. Nevertheless, if what is going on here is not a reaction to that and just for protection from the virus then I see it as very abnormal. The advice to close none essential businesses and stay home sounds like very unreasonable protection. It is a virus, not someone attacking with bombs and machine guns. Why take such extreme measures to protect yourself from an infection? Of course some additional protection measures for the elderly may make sense but generally avoiding things like unnecessary close interactions with people sounds good enough. There seems to be more things in one's hands to protect himself from this outside than those in driving a vehicle. That is in addition to the difference in severity of a car accident compared to this in general.
I think that those unreasonable limitations are being motivated by internally seeking to establish/protect an identity. I also think that the opposite of those measures and ignoring the issue in order to develop immunity could also be originating the same way internally. These kinds of extremes seems to be not hard to notice in western societies and especially here. I remember how in 97 I felt something strange when I was working in an assembly line and one of the workers asked me if we generally ride camels for travel where I came from. He sounded like honestly trying to make sure of some fact so I assured him of that being incorrect. But then another worker jumped in to further correct that first guy claiming similarity between here and there to some level of sharing likeness for Rock Music, that I have never seen there. It was easy to notice how those two opposite positions can share identity issue inside.
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