Why do some react to common sense pandemic measures? Why do they react to them when we, from epidemiology and history, long have known they work in terms of limiting the individual and collective impact of the pandemic?
I am not sure, but I suspect a big reason why some react to pandemic measures is that it’s new to them.
WE ALREADY ACCEPT A LOT OF RESTRICITONS
One aspect is that we already accept a lot of restrictions and regulations. It’s part of society and what makes it work. It’s an essential aspect of civilization. We accept all this because we know it makes sense and because we are used to and familiar with it.
So why react so strongly to a few temporary ones that, for most of us, is just a mild inconvenience?
Perhaps new restrictions seem scary to some just because they are new? Perhaps they are unable to see it in perspective?
THE HISTORY OF PANDEMICS
Also, perhaps they are not familiar with the history and regularity of pandemics? Or epidemiology and what we know works to limit the individual and collective impact of pandemics? Or what can happen if we collectively don’t organize ourselves in certain ways to limit its impact?
If they were, I assume they would see that the measures make sense and that none of it is made up now. It may seem new to us because we haven’t experienced it before as individuals. But it’s not at all new from the perspective of history.
REACTIVITY IS NOT RATIONAL
It is a bit baffling to me.
Why react so strongly to a few temporary measures that, for most of us, is just a mild inconvenience?
And why react to the pandemic measures as if it’s what someone made up now? Don’t you know that these have been tested out for decades and centuries? As humanity, we have gone through it many times and we know what works.
I suspect it’s baffling because the reactivity is not all that rational, just like any reactivity.