It’s because they gave into their fear and we’re waiting for a ‘miracle’ saviour. I’ve watched this act out from the very beginning, and something smelled ‘off’ from the get go. Four months in and I was feeling anxiety and a heightened sense of the fight or flight response, and wondering WTF? I don’t live in a city near enough people to feel that level of intensified energy, UNLESS it was super intense. A friend of mine asked me why the fascination with the unfolding, and was I worried about ‘the virus.’ I said, no, what worries me is OUR REACTION TO IT. Shortly thereafter, I realized it was not my own fear I was feeling, but that of everyone everywhere. Then I was able to let it go, and simply WATCH this unfold.