luvsvacation
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 25, 2014
I’ve been reading through many of the threads and there is such a variance in people’s reaction to the virus. Some are staying locked down and cleaning all groceries/mail coming in. Others seem to have little concern. Some are happy to go to restaurants the second they open, some are not willing to go out unnecessarily until there is a vaccine. Clearly some of these differences are based on personal risk, if you are in a high risk category.
I’m curious through how much has to do with wether you are typically a worrier by nature. I am not a worrier. My default mindset about everything all the time is that everything will be okay and work out. When my kids were little I lost both of them a different times at different theme parks. I never panicked and worried. I didn’t have the whole 2 minutes seemed like an eternity moments. I just figured they wandered off and I needed to locate them so we could go on about our day. Both times they were found in 5-10 minutes and we headed to the next ride. My mind never goes to bad things happening. Obviously logically I know bad things can and do happen, but I just don’t really worry about them happening. As a result I really haven’t been too concerned about this virus. I’m in suburban St Louis and as soon as things started opening last week we headed out. Lunch out a couple of times, my daughter got a tattoo. This may also have partly to do with the fact that we were never really shut down to begin with. My 16 year old works 40+ hours a week stocking shelves at Walmart and my 18 year old works 20 hours a week at QT. I’m a nanny for 2 young kids so I’ve still been at work also. Since we have mostly still had somewhat normal lives (other than school being closed) maybe that has led to me being less concerned also. If we haven’t gotten it with all of us out there working in the public all this time I feel pretty safe.
So anyway, I’m just curious...if you are very concerned do you tend to be more of a worrier naturally? If you’re not very concerned do you tend to not be a worrier?
And just to clarify, it’s not that I’m not concerned with the virus. Obviously something that is killing hundreds of thousands worldwide is concerning! I’m saying that I’m not personally concerned/worried about getting it. And to farther clarify I’m not referring to any conspiracy theorist. I know this is real and serious/deadly.
I’m curious through how much has to do with wether you are typically a worrier by nature. I am not a worrier. My default mindset about everything all the time is that everything will be okay and work out. When my kids were little I lost both of them a different times at different theme parks. I never panicked and worried. I didn’t have the whole 2 minutes seemed like an eternity moments. I just figured they wandered off and I needed to locate them so we could go on about our day. Both times they were found in 5-10 minutes and we headed to the next ride. My mind never goes to bad things happening. Obviously logically I know bad things can and do happen, but I just don’t really worry about them happening. As a result I really haven’t been too concerned about this virus. I’m in suburban St Louis and as soon as things started opening last week we headed out. Lunch out a couple of times, my daughter got a tattoo. This may also have partly to do with the fact that we were never really shut down to begin with. My 16 year old works 40+ hours a week stocking shelves at Walmart and my 18 year old works 20 hours a week at QT. I’m a nanny for 2 young kids so I’ve still been at work also. Since we have mostly still had somewhat normal lives (other than school being closed) maybe that has led to me being less concerned also. If we haven’t gotten it with all of us out there working in the public all this time I feel pretty safe.
So anyway, I’m just curious...if you are very concerned do you tend to be more of a worrier naturally? If you’re not very concerned do you tend to not be a worrier?
And just to clarify, it’s not that I’m not concerned with the virus. Obviously something that is killing hundreds of thousands worldwide is concerning! I’m saying that I’m not personally concerned/worried about getting it. And to farther clarify I’m not referring to any conspiracy theorist. I know this is real and serious/deadly.