Blog Post 3

 The End of the World: Pandemics

        Back in the year 1999, I can guarantee that a decent amount of the population believed the world was going to end when the ball dropped on New Year's Day of 2000. People thought that computers and the other pieces of technology of the time were going to come alive and take over. As silly as it sounds, this was a rather common fear. People's imaginations have never failed to get the best of them, and it's evident that not much has changed. In a rather recent series of events, the Covid-19 pandemic erupted across the globe. With the rapid spread of the virus, people were quick to say the world was ending. Stores had empty isles and no stock. People were over buying products in a panic, the WHO determined the fate of an entire country, and it was the new normal to walk around with N-95's. Comparing New Years Eve of 1999 and the Covid-19 pandemic is rather intriguing, because in moments of hysteria people tend to always respond the same. People were whole heartedly convinced that Covid was never going to go away, and that it was going to kill most of the population. In 1999 the computers were going to run out of digits, and in 2020 people believed scientists would never create a vaccine for Covid. It's genuinely interesting to see how people respond in intense and fearful times, because there's a pattern in their behavior. In both instances, people created bunkers for when the end of the world came. Products flew off the shelves, and there's never been a higher sense of distrust between neighbors. The isolation from these scenarios quite literally threw people into a fear-frenzy. Religious leaders tried using the situation to control people with fear of the world ending, and every time it never happened they found reasons to push "Doomsday" back. These global scares really show a different side of humanity, and the way some people think.