Our brains are hard-wired for tragedy, panic and all things negative. It’s our biological programming–the thing that saved us in the wilderness.

Heard rustling in the bushes?

Don’t wait to find out if it’s a predator or the wind, just run.

Another name for it is our “fight or flight” response mechanism.

The problem is our brain cannot separate a tiger about to maul us to death from being freaked out about a spider in the house. If it stresses you, it activates.

Useful, but really hard to work around in a time of mass panic. We want to be informed, but we’re attracted to the immediate and the stressful.

When you take a step back from the noise, you can see some incredible things happening.

People are connecting to each other more than ever. We’re connecting online and at the table.

We’re reaching out to those cold contacts to see how they’re doing and stretching our social networks as far as we can take them. We’re also learning which ones to avoid.

We also have every top medical researcher in the world working non-stop to come up with solutions and… here’s the big one… sharing this information with each other. The developments happening are accelerating and we’re no longer wondering if, but when.

Amidst the outcomes that will happen as a result of what we’re facing now, we may see some strong, positive ones.

This may bring us together in a small way and that’s a good step to take.