Have you ever experienced an extreme panic before? If you have, it’s probably because you were contributing to a pandemic. When people hear about pandemics, they usually panic and do things they normally wouldn’t do. Other people use pandemics as a believe what I hear instead of what I know. People also dehumanization when there’s a possible outbreak of an pandemic. Dehumanization is when a vaccine is invented but only a few are selected to be saved, leaving the others to wonder why it had to happen to them, like they were just animals to them that they could do whatever they wanted, when they wanted, without no remorse. People react to pandemics is all kinds of ways, but the most common are panicking, taking opportunities for themselves, and dehumanizing others. …show more content…
When a pandemic arises, people turn to a TV to listen to what someone who doesn’t know if their source is reliable or not and gets people to panic, and worry. Instead of listening to the professional that actually knows about the virus or disease. “The statistics are unreliable, but many report that violent crime is rising since the outbreak began.” (Abel). It has been proven that when there is a pandemic going on, the crime rate in any city, state, or country has gone up, dramatically. People lose sight in what is real and what is fake. They chose to believe what they hear, not what they