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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 07:59:25 JST Rich Felker

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   • Kassil

   @Kassil @irenes Most trauma responses are entirely rational.

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     Kassil (kassil@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 07:59:26 JST Kassil

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     • Irenes (many)

     @irenes I saw someone talking about their grandmother, a survivor of the 1918 flu, and how people treated her as traumatized for ensuring her home was well-ventilated and being wary about enclosed spaces.

     Was she traumatized? Probably, but I'd bet more by seeing so many people memory-hole the experience, and her behavior was thoroughly rational in the wake of that.

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 07:59:27 JST Irenes (many)

     *sigh* we remember saying, near the start of the pandemic, that we found it startling and upsetting that society apparently chose to forget the 1918 flu and not learn any lessons from it

     and that we all have an obligation to not let this one be forgotten in the same way, so that there can actually be progress

     we stand by that. unfortunately, it has become clear just how that mass denial operates.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.