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Role Of Panic In Contagion

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Panic is a forceful feeling. Panic is what sends people into a fight or flight response. The fight response in Contagion happened when people would try and fight the disease, even though there was nothing they could really do about it. The fight response also happened when people raided the stores, gas stations, pharmacies and other people's homes or fought to steal what other people had. The flight in Contagion was the people who hid and stayed inside and tried to leave town to get as far away from the disease as possible. The panic in the people changed the outbreak by people raiding businesses, when people made their family stay inside and it also changed the outbreak when people leaked information to families. When the people raided the businesses the first person to do it set everyone into a panic because someone saw them doing it and then panicked because they were scared they wouldn't have enough food for their family. So they went in and fought for what they needed. If they would’ve stayed calm and not panicked the government would have been able to control the amount of food everyone got and controlled everyone. Everyone would have exactly what they needed. …show more content…

This has changed the outbreak because now not only were people worried about getting the disease they were worried that they had run out of medicine or wouldn’t be able to get medicine and in some cases the medicine was the only thing that could possibly make someone they cared about better. This also changed the outbreak because they started fighting each other, when they were fighting, they were touching each other and the disease was passed by physical contact, that might have passed the disease faster. Since they were also fighting each other they were not helping each other they might have been making it

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