Haha me too. For me it was like “heyyyy, it’s me... I was the one who kept dialing and hanging up... yeah I’m serious this time, I need you and my family needs you...”
I taught CPR for the American Red Cross for over a decade, and one of the issues we discussed was the tendency of people having an urgent health crisis to immediately go into denial, or think getting into a car and driving to a hospital was wisdom (instead of calling for an ambulance, back in the olden days when this wasn’t a thousand dollar expense). My personal theory has always been the herd mentality of not wanting to be “weak” because everyone knows the “old and weak” are prey for the predators, and this is probably ancient survival instinct, but whatever it is, it goes deep. We were told we increased the chances for survival just by making people aware of the signs and symptoms of heart attack and stroke. I pray it helped.
In my experience with teenagers, few saw a threat until they got hurt. After the pregnancy-rape-sports injury-car accident they had more sense. In a disaster it might be similar, if you never saw a wildfire or explosion you might not have a good response ready. And there are a few people who can stay cool in a crisis, that might be seen as normalcy bias.
Haha me too. For me it was like “heyyyy, it’s me... I was the one who kept dialing and hanging up... yeah I’m serious this time, I need you and my family needs you...”
If you're now a believer, you might want to stop using that term, for our God is a jealous God.
80% of all statistics are made up on the spot, especially ones dealing with psychology.
Plus this is from Wikipedia, that well known bastion of veracity and honesty
Whether or not the statistic is accurate-- its clear the concept is spot on.
The best antidote to this is a commitment to truth, regardless of discomfort.
I taught CPR for the American Red Cross for over a decade, and one of the issues we discussed was the tendency of people having an urgent health crisis to immediately go into denial, or think getting into a car and driving to a hospital was wisdom (instead of calling for an ambulance, back in the olden days when this wasn’t a thousand dollar expense). My personal theory has always been the herd mentality of not wanting to be “weak” because everyone knows the “old and weak” are prey for the predators, and this is probably ancient survival instinct, but whatever it is, it goes deep. We were told we increased the chances for survival just by making people aware of the signs and symptoms of heart attack and stroke. I pray it helped.
Thx for posting!!
Of course! Nice to have good material like this.
In my experience with teenagers, few saw a threat until they got hurt. After the pregnancy-rape-sports injury-car accident they had more sense. In a disaster it might be similar, if you never saw a wildfire or explosion you might not have a good response ready. And there are a few people who can stay cool in a crisis, that might be seen as normalcy bias.
Yeah that sounds about right