Under a barrage of frightening news about the COVID-19 novel Coronavirus, Bill Whittle lays out his coping strategy that allows him to move forward with confidence in the face of fear. How are you coping, and how can you help calm others?
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10 replies on “Coping with COVID-19: How to Manage Your Fear and Calm Others”
I must disagree a little bit Here, although this IS the best take on the wuflu I have yet seen. I believe, based on the same numbers Mr Whittle found, that come June we will find out that this flu generates less than half the deaths the “normal” flu generates. In other words, the social and economic effects are NOT due to a rational assessment of the problem, but rather to an irrational reaction to the problem. Why would this be? Is it possible that the same folks on the evil side of America are driving this? I think that half of it is simply greed, which is the main force driving the 24-7 news feeds, and half of it is Orange Man Bad syndrome. Set the economy back 20 years? Well worth it if Trump goes! Kill the unemployment rate? That’s a feature, not a bug! I hope Mr Whittle is correct in saying “there WILL be consequences for those responsible” but I ain’t holding my breath.
Lessons we can learn personally:
1) Be debt free and have an emergency fund. If everyone followed the Dave Ramsey plan of being debt free and having an emergency fund of 3-6 months on hand, they would be doing much better right now.
2) Have emergency supplies on hand. It used to be much more common to have things like food storage to weather a long winter. Now it makes sense to have some food storage to weather a quarantine like this. As Bill said, this is a relatively safer disease than what we could be hit with. So while you may be “brave” enough to go to the grocery store now, you might not be as brave if the death rate was 10%.
3) Be prepared to keep your family safe. We have already seen in some states that they are not policing as heavily as they normally would and the criminals realize it too. If you take precautions 1 & 2 and the police aren’t out in full force, you may be forced to protect your household from people that were unprepared, desperate, criminal in nature, or some combination thereof. So protect the 2A and learn how to be a responsible gun owner.
Can’t up vote enough. I have taken Dave’s class and taught it twice at church. The only debt we have is the balance on our mortgage.
When folks at work were moaning over the stock market and their 401k’s, I quote Steve Green from a couple episodes ago. “How much did you lose in the stock market? Nothing, I didn’t sell.”
BTW – Dave stated a variation of this on his show last Wednesday.
I’m not afraid of what the virus can do to me, but I am afraid of passing it to my grandmother, who is on chemo. I’m afraid of a breakdown in the rule of law; I’m already seeing people ignoring all of the traffic laws. I’m not panicking or anything, but I’m prepared and paying attention.
“ignoring all of the traffic laws” makes me think things are normal! LOL
You don’t need to go so far as to suggest banning all transportation. You only have to talk about CAFE standards. How many people die in car accidents simply because they’re in lightweight, plastic cars?
Deborah, I would like to politely disagree about car accidents. What I see are big, heavy pickup trucks blasting down the road and bullying people in smaller cars. I have a Mazda Miata and over the eight years I have owned it I have lost count of the number of times I have been able to avoid accidents because the small, light car I drive is nimble enough to get me out of accidents. To me accident avoidance is more important. JMHO
I can see that, but I have to wonder if a more solid car would be too heavy to be as nimble. I would think the faster you’re traveling, the less of an issue. I’m not an engineer, nor do I play one on tv. I would look to any studies done, but I think we’ve learned that studies do not always reflect realty, unfortunately.
Also, my comment was directed at the “save one life” crowd, not reasonable people like you.
I agree, that in an accident, a heavier vehicle is safer. That is what the studies show. Of course if I lived and commuted in a high traffic area I would not have anywhere to dodge to in my nimble car! LOL
Stay well – and safe!! 😉