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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 756062" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I am answering Busy here. My quote thing isn't working again. (It was such a pleasure when it worked the past week. And now it's not. Again.)</p><p></p><p>She's asking why we're going off the deep end about Coronavirus here in the West. The answer: <em>I don't know.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>I think part of it is that we are very oriented towards Asia. In our consciousness, we feel close to China. I know I do. I have my whole life due to the City I am from. We have serious ports of entry that bring people and goods from all over the Far East but particularly mainline China. In Northern California, the SF Bay Area, particularly there are many, many Chinese people who live here who travel back and forth and whose relatives do too. Which is to say there is an identification with China and a consciousness of being close to Asia and inter-connected to it.</p><p></p><p>I think another reason is the extreme social mobility in California. I have not lived for long times in other states but I have lived in other countries. In California we travel a whole lot. This year for example I have traveled either to the Northern or Southern part of the state perhaps 10 times. And I don't work! Many, many people drive every single day three hours to work to the SF Bay Area. I think this gives many of us a sense of un-safety, or poor boundaries, or permeability in our space.</p><p></p><p>I know in my own case I WATCH OR LISTEN TO ENTIRELY TOO MUCH NEWS. AND I NEED TO STOP.</p><p></p><p>Finally, if you go to Costco and every.single.cart has 3 or 4 cases of water in it. And if you go to the dollar store and thermometers are sold out. And there are huge displays of hand sanitizer, 5 shelves high....and you are clearly not the only one who is buying all of this. You look at the other carts, and what you think of is: <em>Oh. I need to buy non-perishable protein bars, or dried fruit. Or why didn't I think of buying canned soups and beans.</em> B<em>ecause you see this stuff in others' carts.</em> Because you see all the OTHER people who are better at following orders and buying essential emergency supplies, than are you. And then, you go and copy THEM.</p><p></p><p>So finally I am seeing how extremely nutty this is. But before I abandon this lunacy completely, I am going to check and see how many new cases there are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 756062, member: 18958"] I am answering Busy here. My quote thing isn't working again. (It was such a pleasure when it worked the past week. And now it's not. Again.) She's asking why we're going off the deep end about Coronavirus here in the West. The answer: [I]I don't know. [/I] I think part of it is that we are very oriented towards Asia. In our consciousness, we feel close to China. I know I do. I have my whole life due to the City I am from. We have serious ports of entry that bring people and goods from all over the Far East but particularly mainline China. In Northern California, the SF Bay Area, particularly there are many, many Chinese people who live here who travel back and forth and whose relatives do too. Which is to say there is an identification with China and a consciousness of being close to Asia and inter-connected to it. I think another reason is the extreme social mobility in California. I have not lived for long times in other states but I have lived in other countries. In California we travel a whole lot. This year for example I have traveled either to the Northern or Southern part of the state perhaps 10 times. And I don't work! Many, many people drive every single day three hours to work to the SF Bay Area. I think this gives many of us a sense of un-safety, or poor boundaries, or permeability in our space. I know in my own case I WATCH OR LISTEN TO ENTIRELY TOO MUCH NEWS. AND I NEED TO STOP. Finally, if you go to Costco and every.single.cart has 3 or 4 cases of water in it. And if you go to the dollar store and thermometers are sold out. And there are huge displays of hand sanitizer, 5 shelves high....and you are clearly not the only one who is buying all of this. You look at the other carts, and what you think of is: [I]Oh. I need to buy non-perishable protein bars, or dried fruit. Or why didn't I think of buying canned soups and beans.[/I] B[I]ecause you see this stuff in others' carts.[/I] Because you see all the OTHER people who are better at following orders and buying essential emergency supplies, than are you. And then, you go and copy THEM. So finally I am seeing how extremely nutty this is. But before I abandon this lunacy completely, I am going to check and see how many new cases there are. [/QUOTE]
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