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Over my past twenty years as a dance teacher, a majority of it spent introducing people to partner dancing for the very first time, I have had plenty of experience with how strangely people can behave when they are scared. Some people hide from their fear barricading themselves behind mountains of excuses, some get overly giddy or frenetic, some overcompensate and behave like bullies, some become so stoic and terse as to seem almost statue-like. Once they have overcome the fear their behavior returns to normal and you finally get to meet the real ‘them’ but until then their actions and attitudes can make little to no sense whatsoever.
What we are facing now is on a scale our world has not seen in over a century. That the virus itself does not pose an instantly lethal threat to everyone it has contact with but the velocity of its spread and the percentage of people it does make critically ill is causing a crisis which is severely altering and disrupting the life of every single person on the planet. So how can there still be people who are not taking this crisis seriously, to the point of even being dismissive about it?
The short and simple answer is fear…