Any at point during this outbreak did you feel real fear

no.

I did not have a fear of the virus, but rather a kinda fear of the aftermath of the virus, which is still present.

Not really a fear, more of a uh oh, it's starting, here it comes sort of feeling which prompted me to get ready with food preps and so forth.

I had been a prepper years ago, but when I got saved I got rid of it all as the Lord is my preps. But I figured no buying, no selling looming on the horizon, so I got stuff to tide us over, plus stuff for the grown kid and grandchild, the inlaws, plus for my sister and mother, all of whom are not so inclined.

Well, the kid is, but he inherited his mammoth tendency to procrastinate from his mother, and I knew by the time he hit the stores they would be empty. And mom was right.

So now that everyone has 6 months or more of shelf stable victuals for if times get bad, it's just time to watch the show as it rolls out and mebbe pluck a few people out of the fire before the curtain closes...which is still a good ways off imo, but the previews are coming to an end I think and the main show is getting ready to start

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nope... i look at it this way, survive the virus and die from cancer, aortic dissection, organ failure, accident, war, poverty, dehydration, general doom... survive this and something else IS going to get you and it just might be the most horrible death ever making you beg to fade away on a respirator in relative comfort.

you can't hide from death. no amount of disinfectant, gloves or masks will save you from the inevitable.

I was worried about my Dad in Down town Miami . I was worried he might contract , but more worried about mobs running a muck. I was sick early January in California, among my co workers and neighbors. and then again in March, bad cough and chills for 7 days. . Tourist town area. so I may have had it.

Only fear I felt was if my small town was cut off from food. Then I would have 2 months or food, it was winter time in the high mountains. Then I would have to pillage and or hunt, grow food. And not for me but, community/ friends. I had enough food/ammo/water for many a moon.

But we are not out of the woods yet. The economy could go sour and it should I guess. Or WAR might spark from this.

Oh and Fak CHIna . dirty mo fkrs

Maybe in the first few weeks of the outbreak in wuhan..not for several months now though. Now its just stupid, and annoying.

No.
As a man I'm immune to hysteria.

Same. Was keeping an eye in late January. Got scared Feb to early March. Then i realized.

I had the typical GLP user evolution of emotions, though too many people with big egos here to admit it.

Check my posts. Bs then, bs now

Not ever. A little disbelief.

When I was first hearing about it, I discounted it. Unlike ebola . . . I can't say I ever felt "real fear" regarding ebola, but I never discounted it. And I was prepared for a feeling of unalloyed terror, if it'd gotten a foothold on my continent (and that day may well come).

Then I saw a brief clip of people spontaneously dropping dead in Hopsingland. That was incredible. In-cre-di-ble. No credibility whatsoever.

And then . . .

and then Tom Hanks got it and dropped over dead. That really hit home. Except he didn't drop over dead, did he? He "tested positive".

No fear of the virus, but i am worried about how long this is gonna go on for tbf, kid is getting mega frustrated and no school, wife is losing it with anxiety and i am trying to manage everyone while under fully strict lock down, no going outside etc..... getting stir crazy here!

No, just pissed off ... a low-level always-humming-at-a-low-level pissed off (that continues) - - at how UTTERLY LOST AND BLINDLY OBEDIENT everyone appears to be!!!!!!! I'm in Canada - while it's pretty OK here on Vancouver island, Canada in general is a wasteland when it comes to independent thought.

The whole silly saga has offered me the opportunity to cause trouble because they have inverted the normal function of shopping, something people have been doing for about 100 years now by me not abiding social distancing and by not queuing up outside like a fucking moron. No. No i won't have it one iota And i am certainly more than ready to punch down anybody trying to stop me. Kapish? Quite simple really.

Not fear but concern particularly for frail people. This is a real bio-engineered thing from Wuhan Virology lab w/help from the USA. Its unnatural origin really kicks the immune system response into hyperdrive of a small number of people who get it and this is essentially their downfall.

I think having a prudent amount of caution over it is wise. After all there is essentially an incredibly unpredictable bioweapon now on the loose.

Everybody is eventually going to have to get this thing though so what can you do other than reasonable things like wash your hands and try not to touch your face? A mask isn't going to do anything. Staying isolated forever isn't reasonable.

It isn't a bad idea to keep yourself healthy until some sort of more reliable drug therapy is worked out in the next few months.

No.

Yes. Yesterday an old friend of mine was diagnosed positive. She has pneumonia and sepsis. Flag, Az. Hospital is overload with Injuns from the res. Scary shit indeed!

Yes,in the very beginning when it was portrayed as 1 step below Ebola.

I quickly figured out we were being scammed big time.

Always hoped to have a chance of going to the hospital because of it, so to record everything secretly whilst uploading it in live time, but wasn't given that chance, even now with thermal imaging that it shows 100 degrees F and they panic and then it instantly shows 96.8, the chance is going away and won't have the pleasure of meeting those heroes doctors to transfer to them all this energy that they deserve for their heroic actions.
However, hope dies last as they say, who knows, maybe before the outbreak is over, will have that chance filled with joy.

I'm not worried about the virus.

That's what the cabal is wondering.

Exactly what the OP is wondering.

They are taking inventory on how well they scared you.

I think they are feeling insecure about their failed hoax and are now polling and collecting data so they can do it better next time.

No, wasn't really worried about the virus itself. Had the feeling I'd probably catch it because of the work I was doing. But I was stressed in March, when people were clearing the store out I had to deal with that

Not from the outbreak. Only YouTube prophecies about it.

Only had a bit of anxiety pre-lockdown.

I knew they would start shutting down flights and all that at least 3 weeks before hand.

I was flying between the UK and Miami to see family for a couple of weeks.

I was worried I'd be stuck in the USA...

But luckily the lockdowns started a week after I returned to the UK.

I predicted lockdowns, my inmediate circle of friends thought I was crazy... lockdowns happened... now the ppl that thought I was crazy look at me like Jesus.

i nearly never feared corona itself
i feared the lockdown will starve me to death
and i now fear wearing masks because it look like Muslim women niqab and the goverment threaten the ones who refuse to wear it with big Fine or jail

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I did not fear the virus, I feared what people would do because of the virus.

Good thread.

No, not afraid of COVID. I put these things in God's hands. I won't leave this world a moment sooner or a moment later than the time He decides to call me home.

I take comfort in Psalm 91:

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.

If anything has made me concerned, it's seeing so many people freaking out, government and media stoking mass hysteria, claims of a new normal, politicians and police not respecting human rights, and people being so willing to give up their rights and rat out their neighbors.

Roosevelt was right when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," and now I understand why the Bible condemns cowards so much that it lumps them in with murderers.

Because of all the fear, now millions of people in the third world are going to die of starvation due to the supply chain disruptions caused by the shutdown, and a lot of hysterical people are still calling for the shutdown to continue.

Agree with Birdmom,great post.