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With the stress of restrictions and self-quarantines, some Americans are lashing out at one another. They are criticizing each other’s attitudes, decisions and approaches.
When it comes to handling a crisis— or any pressure— I think a lot of an individual’s response has to do with personality type.
An alarmist personality will not be able to convince a fatalist to see things their way, and vice versa. The process of trying can create conflict and frustration.
Here are 17 key personality types when it comes to handling coronavirus. Which type(s) are you? What about your family and friends.
1. The Enforcer: This personality polices everyone else.
“You touched your face!” “Why aren’t you home in isolation?” “You let your kids eat like that?”
2. Drama Queen: This person creates drama around the simplest event.
“OMG! I went to the store and they were COMPLETELY OUT OF MY favorite potato chips! I can’t fall asleep at night if I don’t eat those special chips. I’m going to be a mess tomorrow morning! I won’t get any sleep. I’m definitely going to get sick.”
3. Action Oriented a/k/a The Organizer: This type is always on the move, trying to impact his environment.
“I can show you how to make your own hand sanitizer.” “We can build plastic shields and have a social distance meeting to discuss how we are going to divide duties the next month.”
4. Party Animal: Anything is an excuse for a party. This person avoids addressing serious events by ignoring them.
“Let’s put on some music and have a social distance party six feet apart! I’ll make corona cocktails!”
5. The Selfie: This person is a character in his own movie at all times.
“Take a picture of me looking for toilet paper on this empty shelf.” “Here I am taking my temperature— no fever!”
6. The Optimist: They are most comfortable when immersed in the best case scenario.
“The worst is over… we will come back stronger than ever…” “Well, some good will come of this. At least it has brought families together. We’re getting a break from work stresses and reconnecting with our real lives.”
7. The Alarmist a/k/a The Pessimist: They are most comfortable considering the worst case scenario.
“I know I’m going to catch it. You’re going to catch it, too. They’re not telling us how bad it is. We’re all going to die.”
8. The Fatalist: There is no point in even trying.
“This is the End of Days. I knew it was coming. It’s all part of The Plan.”
9. The Ideologue: Everything that happens is filtered through a partisan lens.
“Coronavirus is Trump’s fault.” “Coronavirus is the Democrats’ fault.”
10. The Inquisitor: This person is constantly questioning and seeking information.
“Who—what—when—where—why—how..” and “…Really?”
11. The Researcher a/k/a The Analyst: These types gather factual and historic information and apply it to the events at hand.
“The 1918 epidemic showed us..” “This chart proves…”
12. The Skeptic: This type accepts nothing at face value.
“But how do we really know…”
13. The Realist: Less doomsday than the fatalist, The Realist accepts with a matter of fact attitude.
“It is what it is. If I get it; I get it. We all die of something.”
14. The Futurist: This personality sees transformation resulting from chaos.
“Our lives will be transformed with new technologies and methods even after this is over, more telecommuting, telemedicine, distance learning…”
15. The Sociologist: A person who looks at how events impact the way we live life.
“Our society will be transformed with social distancing a new, permanent reality, different crowd experiences, new ways to connect without touch…”
16. The Psychologist: This person psycho-analyzes the impact.
“People will lose their motivation and become depressed.”
17. The Opportunist a/k/a The Entrepreneur: This type finds opportunity in most any environment.
“I can start a new business that caters to the people stuck at home.” “I’m waiting for the right moment and am going to buy stock in…”
As long as they aren’t endangering others, people should probably be allowed to process stress in his own way.
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Perhaps I fluctuate. We are older/at-risk/essential. Raising livestock for a living has taught us more than I really like to consider about COVID.
Overall, we have adapted our food shopping and other necessary interactions to brst insulate/isolate ourselves from others. Unlike most people, knowing how biological systems and pathogens play out, I did not exoect this to be a quick turnaround.
Psychological fatigue has set in with most Americans, I think. As a very social person, I am not happy about missing my outside-the-home activities, I do realize we are blessed to have each other and everything we need.
I have gone through most of these, at least for a short time; but mostly I am a 6/optimist. We are a people who don’t just give up. The threat is real, but nowhere near as serious to the total population as some Loud Voices would want us to believe. Let the scaredy cats continue to cower if they want to, but let the rest of us live, work and learn — safely, yes, but without over-reacting.
I will wear a mask if it makes other people feel safer. Maybe I will rustle a pony and rob a stagecoach while I am wearing it. ;)
What we are seeing here is the effect of ignorance on scattering opinion. Send everybody away to learn about:
1) The Flexner Report and Rockerfeller Medicine
2) UN Agenda 21
3) The history and politics of virology and germ theory
4) how Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates made their money
5) The chiropractors v. the AMA, and the origins of the ‘skeptic’ movement
6) The Federal Reserve and the need for a global financial reset
7) The secret societies behind globalism
8) The dangers of medicine and vaccines
9) Why AIDS is a fraud
Then see how many categories there are. I bet the number would be less than 17 after that.
I found this in my Spam file & I have no idea why.
A lot of effort and creativity went into these classifications.
I am on the lazy side of things and I would say there are the Democrats, Republicans, a group for those who do not realize anything is happening, and those that are sure what is happening.
I will either place my categories into your classifications or yours into mine.
Keep up the great work.
The only black box I can see on my iPhone is the one asking if my vote has changed (?)
One that I run into is the ‘anecdotist’, “I heard that a young man (the brother of the cousin of a friend) caught the Covid and died even though he was only 20(ish) and didn’t have any complicating conditions.”
Cogsys:
Table sugar kills, because it effects acidity in the body.
Avoid sugar. / take D3 / take a high-end multi-vitamin (( see
lef.com )) with a meal / and exercise (( at least walking every day )).
More, re ACID vs. ALKALINE
—and what kills killer viruses :
https://time.com/5808894/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus/
“ . . . SARS-CoV-2 requires an A C I D I C environment.
Hydroxychloroquine is an A L K A L I N E compound, so
it raises the pH levels of the host environment, preventing
the virus from releasing its genes for replicating.”
-Rick
If the washing don’t getcha, the rinsing will.
That’s life.
Nobody gets out of it alive.
So, Susan, you are #8 ? :
:
F A T A L I S T.
Find and read, “Journeys Out of the Body,”
by Robert A. Monroe—to learn that everyone
gets out A L I V E.
How?
—because there is no death.
You are not your physical body.
What happens is : T R A N S I T I O N.
Think of the stages of a butterfly.—
over and over and over again.
Study Hindu vedas for a better clue.
Even so, I get your meaning.
-Rick
Geez, Rick….I am torn between 8 and 13 if you ask me.
“The cycle of perpetual renewal, as in Nature, is the progression that consists of five parts: death, decay, fertilization, gestation, rebirth. Everything we experience has a beginning, a middle, an end and is followed by a new beginning. It’s the constant cycling of death and rebirth, the endless going and return. Therefore do not draw back from the passage into darkness. When in deep water, become a diver.”
“The Book of Runes” a Commentary by Ralph Blum
I expected to read something from 1’s, 7’s and 17’s — and not read a word from 4’s and 8’s.
Yep, not a word from 4’s and 8’s.