Vivan G. Glitchet

A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)

Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.

Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.

Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.

But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.

That last slide is extremely telling, no?

In short, share this around. Then ya'll can calm the fuck down, head to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this to all blow over.

So no, the sky isn’t falling but be sensible. Don’t panic buy, do wash your hands. Don’t avoid all human contact, do avoid visiting your granny or your friend with a compromised immune system. Do self isolate if you think you might have symptoms.

Found this in the reblogs. It’s not the apocalypse but the issue is lack of immunity and potentially wide spread because of it can mean and overall very large amount of infected, which ticks up the overall deaths from sheer volume, especially if healthcare infrastructure is overburdened. This has killed more than SARS and MERS because it’s very infectious. 

People need to stop panicking for themselves like it’s the apocalypse and be concerned about containing the spread due to the vulnerable people. Like in WA where I live, most of the deaths are in the nursing home in Kirkland where the first cluster really started, like it just took those people out. That won’t happen to everyone but it tanks some of the vulnerable elderly and chronically ill people real hard. 

So like the above post says the thinking should be “don’t panic, don’t think you’re going to die unless you’re chronically ill or old, but worry about keep your older parents or sister who just finished chemo or gram gram safe since this could kill them.” Because the majority of healthy people still probably have someone in their life that is vulnerable due to age or illness. 

But if you’re young and healthy, or at least don’t have one of the conditions vulnerable to this, the mass panic needs to stop. You’ll just get a version of the flu and be fine in two weeks.