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Coping with the pandemic fear!

Pandemics evoke fear. Fear in turn affects the psyche of the humanity leading to erratic behavior and chaos. The recent outbreak of Coronavirus is a befitting example of same. It is less of an infectious pandemic and more of pandemic of fear.

So, what should we do..??!

Be concerned due to it's infectious nature - YES. This is warranted.
Go an insane overdrive digesting every online post/message and make it viral without verifying the facts - NO. This is unwarranted. Stop it yourself and stop the people in your network from doing same.

Research and find out the truth. If you accept any limiting belief, it becomes the truth for you. Do not go that way. Widen the horizon and go with an open receptive analytical mind.
  • Understand the disease and it's related symptoms.
  • Understand the preventive measures to be taken.
  • Understand the steps to be followed in case of a detection. 
ACT as you should in the hour of crisis. Aid governance by educating the illiterate about the above as they need to know about it too. In all practicality, they might be clueless about the reality.

To overcome the psychosis, analyze the death rates and the reason behind them across various  periods like a year, last 3 months, last month, etc. You will see for yourself then that the so called Coronavirus pandemic is no pandemic at all. It is all a result of social media frenzy. More people have died and are dying from Cancer, Suicide, Heart attacks and what not!

Decide for yourself whether you want to let the unknown fear dominate you or you want to get a handle on the fear. - Do not conform with the flow. It is your LIFE. Take CHARGE.

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