Lesley Carhart Oct 29

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 29

This is a natural reaction of your brain to repeatedly seeing horrific things. It will pay less and less attention to those images and have less of a visceral reaction. You can accept horrors.

This is what the fascists want. They want you to accept things continually getting worse and more violent.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 29
I know it’s overwhelming right now, but kick in your rational brain and risk measures and then evaluate if things are the same or as good as they were a year ago, ten years ago, etc. Is this something you would have considered normal or noteworthy? Is this what you’d expect from the gov or media?
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I’ll never forget being on the gulf coast after hurricane Katrina and how it took less than a month to stop noticing apartment buildings sheared in half and the smell of decay. I’ll never not recognize that smell now.
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Show threadsenOct 29
@hacks4pancakes Have never been that close to a cyclone, but all the ones that have come near did dump a heap of water in areas I've lived in. So, having assisted with four cleanups so far, I'm well versed in that stench.
Show threadjustmichelleOct 30
@hacks4pancakes The rotten chicken warehouses. The rows of fridges taped shut and still oozing vileness.