Is anyone super analytical when stressed? I've spent like two days reading the Harvard website's guide to the coronavirus along with numerous book excerpts and related events throughout history.

Now, at like 4am, I'm actually calmer. Stressed, but without panic. I think taking a break from the constant media coverage, and focusing on pure facts and current statements, is healthy. Plus, there's so much disinformation out there, it really helps to read from and listen to experts.

These are difficult times, and quite new for the vast majority of us especially in this sub, but the facts help take away the surreality of what's going on outside. There's some passage in Gravity's Rainbow about how the world felt "floaty" after nukes were developed. Like there was never anything keeping you on the ground anymore, and how all norms were suddenly wiped away just at the thought of something new and scary...

Well, I felt pretty fucking floaty these past several weeks. Reading the news, the threads, everything was building up to it coming here (Bay Area for me.)

Now it's here. But with more facts, I can actually feel my feet on the ground again.

So either that or some Abba songs I don't know both help. How you all doing?