I put a 6. That doesn’t adequately cover how I feel, and neither do the ones above or below it. But also hard to compare because people who seem more worried about it than I am rated it lower. I’ve had a lot of thoughts and feelings on this that are tl;dr and have held off from posting. But in any case, it seems people are conflating the fomentation of fear and taking it seriously. It’s inducing a lot of anxiety for a lot of people. There’s certainly nothing wrong with anxiety — it’s a healthy driver for change. But, like anything else, it eventually provides diminishing returns and eventually the curve turns counterproductive.
As a thought exercise, this is not meant to suggest anything one way or the other, but more about helping anyone organize many different thoughts and bring clarity, but ask yourself where you see this being in a week. As yourself what the worst-case-scenario is, from your view, and what the best-case-scenario is. Ask yourself what is most likely. In a week, assess where things are at. It’s easy to look at these things in hindsight and, with how many conflicting thoughts each of us may possess, believe that we adequately captured things when in reality we were more uncertain in those moments than hindsight has us believe. So deliberately do this, then allow yourself to recalibrate, and make the assessment for the next week. This isn’t a suggestion for anyone to be “proven wrong,” on either side, but more about being able to settle disparate thoughts and try to help be more self-aware of our appraisals.
