- Participation trophies
- Ordering food at the strip club
- Askholes who request your advice but never take it
- Reality TV
- Getting in fights over hand sanitizer
- Cry closets
- Dating someone crazy
- Taking calls on speakerphone in line at coffee shops
- A housewife who forgot to hang a live, laugh, love sign in the kitchen
- Buying a stupid amount of fucking toilet paper causing a national shortage
- Falling to your knees in tears because someone had a difference in opinion
- Saying, “sure, we can talk” after your ex threatened months of harassment if you ignore him/her
- Middle-aged white dads who forgot to rock their sandpaper jeans and New Balance shoes at Olive Garden
- People speaking in cursive (think: that guy who can’t get to the f*cking point in his story and just rambles a shitfuck of words)
- Being an advice monster
- Acting like an old hag
- Dropping “irregardless” in a sentence
- “Woke up like this” selfies
- Failing to undergo standard lockdown procedure when your ex goes full psycho on you
- Soccer moms running you over at Vons
- Panicking about the coronavirus
- Having zero sense of humor.
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Yes, all of these are without question a national emergency.
On a slightly more serious note, the focus on how to handle the coronavirus should be on minimizing risk factors, without panic.
Stressing out, worrying, panicking, will not improve your circumstances. If anything, stressing out will compromise your immune system. The virus is obviously a threat to our health, so why add risk factors by stressing instead of minimizing them by being composed?
Take this from someone who’s battled chronic disease since 17 years old – it does not matter how bad the circumstances get – worrying will never, ever, ever do anything good for you.
Some may claim worrying helps them. Those people have never experienced responding to challenges without stressing out. They’ve never felt the empowering feeling of being completely calm, composed, and decisive under stressful situations.
A panicked person hesitates. A panicked person overthinks. A panicked person breaks down. Panic doesn’t make us more productive or alert, panic breeds inaction.
Let’s take action without being paralyzed by fear. Let’s take action by minimizing risk factors as much as possible. No disease, no circumstance is in charge of your emotional state. Only you are.
Principle: Minimize risk factors, but without panic
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