Don't normally listen to podcasts but I did this one at Slate with an ER doctor..
He points to the lack of control felt by him and the public. That's one of the things about being poor--the lack of control over your life, the need to live from crisis to crisis, without the resources to get ahead of things. The lack of control means you lose the ability to scan the environment and to plan the future.
For me, these descriptions apply to my current state of mind--my mental horizon has contracted to the issues raised by the virus: buying food, the loss of outside entertainment possibilities, the uncertainty,. In other words, I'm now pretty much stupid.
[Updated--I forgot the most important thing--obsessing about the possibility Starbucks will close. I can't live without my coffee.]
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