When I grew up in the 1950s people were crazy like they are now of all political persuasions. Fist fights over politics were pretty common still in the 1950s. Most people hadn't been to college like they have now so there was this quality of everyone then being much less civilized in many ways than they are now.
So, people getting beat up for their views was much more common then in general. As a child you had to watch what you said a lot so someone didn't just beat you within an inch of your life. Almost anyone sort of had the right to beat you even if you didn't know them if you did Anything or said anything they didn't like.
But, what bothers me most about the coronavirus is just how crazy people are getting of all religions and political persuasions from not having their normal lives at this point.
The survivors are surviving and the crazy are dying more and more around the world.
So, unless you can surround yourself with saner people or just go off alone (one of the two) your hope for survival isn't that great during these times.
But, of the two I would say that surrounding yourself with saner people likely would be the best way to move forward simply because most people cannot handle being alone all the time. It's a very rare nature that actually does better alone a lot.
Mostly being alone just makes most people more eccentric and crazy than they were before.
I learned this as a young man when I rented my first apartments away from home. By age 20 I realized that I never really wanted to live completely along ever again. I chose to either live with friends my age or my parents or with my girlfriends or wives after I was about 20 because I saw first hand that I really wasn't suited to live alone except in a complete emergency.
I think for me it's about having someone there that I trust saying to me: "You are totally full of shit" when that needs to be said and conversely I can say that to whoever I'm living with when that's true of them too.
We all need people we trust to tell us when we are making serious mistakes in our lives before it's too late to recover from those mistakes.
I worry about the QANON people who will believe things so outlandish that they will either get themselves killed or kill innocent people in the process.
The important thing to know is that Coronavirus worldwide is making people exponentially more crazy no matter their religion or political views left, right and center.
If you start with this premise you can save yourselves and your families from complete death and destruction during these times.
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