What if this were a war? article by Alejandro Quintana

Alejandro Quintana Rivero is a Prevention Consultant for Fraternidad-Muprespa in Las Palmas and related to the pandemic situation that we are experiencing, he has written the article titled What if this were a war?.

The author reminds us how throughout history, humanity has always reacted instinctively to danger since it is an atavistic reaction, inserted in our reptilian brain. Danger makes us afraid and fear induces the quick reaction: “protect yourself or fight.”

When we went from acting as individuals to acting as a society, we never needed a law or a rule to force us to protect ourselves, since we were still using that old primal instinct. During the Middle Ages, when a city was going to suffer an attack by an enemy, the inhabitants of the outer villages ran to take refuge in the safety of their lord's castle and during the Second World War, when faced with a bombing warning, the citizens flocked in masses to the air raid shelters.

However, we have been living with a potentially lethal pandemic for a year and in our reaction as a society that instinct of protection is not perceived. Have we lost it? What if this were a war?

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