Neighbors not Socially Distancing (messages, feel, neighborhood, business)
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Where in my OP did I state or insinuate calling the cops for people not socially distancing?
Hopefully someone with a background in psychology will weigh in on whether people have an implicit positive bias toward people they know when deciding whether or not to social distance.
I don't have a background in psychology. I will say that I think the other posters jumped on you without thinking about your actual question. Yes, I believe that in neighborhoods where people have known each other for some time, there may well be an implicit bias that their neighbors are "safe" and therefore proper social distancing is not required when communicating with them. Of course, this belief is entirely without substance, but emotion overrules reason for a great many people. I'm lucky that my neighborhood has a lot of much older people in it, many of whom I haven't even seen for some weeks. The others I talk to across the street quite amicably and sensibly. However, I do see groups of very young people sauntering down the street in very close contact. I just figure they're young and think they're indestructible. Whatever.
Hopefully someone with a background in psychology will weigh in on whether people have an implicit positive bias toward people they know when deciding whether or not to social distance.
Also, of course, people DO have an implicit positive bias toward people they know or think they know. I can remember back to a time (decades ago) when I visited a certain church with friends of ours who were members. They took communion and the whole congregation drank from the same chalice. I questioned that with them and the answer was, "Well, it's just US," meaning it's not other people, or it's not anyone and everyone, it's just us in our little familiar circle.
I can look out my window and see a plethora of neighbors and few are practicing social distancing when they encounter one another passing by on a walk. In fact, they talk very close to one another physically, as if there is no virus pandemic. Do people inherently trust people they know socially and assume they are negative for the virus? Is this a form of implicit bias?
I can look out my window and see a plethora of neighbors and few are practicing social distancing when they encounter one another passing by on a walk. In fact, they talk very close to one another physically, as if there is no virus pandemic. Do people inherently trust people they know socially and assume they are negative for the virus? Is this a form of implicit bias?
Yikes! Apparently you can't ask a simple question without being maligned for it.
I think some people are not taking this seriously either because they believe they're not going to get it (some young people think it's an old person only concern) and others are just not keeping up with the news. I'm not sure that they trust those they know as much as they aren't buying into the concerns most people have.
My neighbors are pretty much wide-circling everyone when they're out.
I believe Americans have a particularly independent attitude about rights and following the rules compared to other countries and I wonder if it's because we don't have a true national identity. Instead the "I will do what I want to do" attitude reigns supreme, so many won't change their behavior until the virus actually affects them personally.
I have hunkered down for three weeks, and only go out with an N95 mask (got a long time ago). It's tough to see others practicing no social distancing when you are sacrificing for the sake of the common good. It's human nature to want to do something about the rule breakers.
It is really disturbing to me the way that people responded so rudely to your post in which you simply wondered about potential motivations for human behavior.
It makes me wonder why people felt so defensive when they read your post that they had to respond in such a manner.
It is really disturbing to me the way that people responded so rudely to your post in which you simply wondered about potential motivations for human behavior.
It makes me wonder why people felt so defensive when they read your post that they had to respond in such a manner.
Yeah, I thought the same. Talk about going from 0 - 100 in a matter of seconds.
Exactly. Everyone has become the self-appointed coronavirus police.
OP, you can't control anyone but yourself. There's nothing to be gained by concerning yourself with the actions of others.
That is an idiotic and dangerous statement (though there are apparently a lot of idiots on this thread).
In a pandemic, anti-social and dangerous behavior that will make things last longer and endanger others IS everyone's business. It's no problem if the danger is only to the one engaging in the behavior, but when it risks the health and lives of others, it is no different than randomly shooting into a crowd.
One thing that comes out of this is that the intelligence/emotional maturity of her neighbors is on display for all the world to see, and she knows this about them going forward in future. As we do about those here who say to ignore the behavior and scold the OP for being concerned.
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