CORONAVIRUS AND FEAR – Dangerous Allies

Coronavirus y el miedo

The fear thou art in, Sancho, said Don Quixote, prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are (1). Relax, that’s not your fear, it’s the fear of the flyer (2). COVID-19, a new type of Coronavirus declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, is not an exceptional case in relation to other recent epidemics; nor is it the virus that has produced  -so far- the highest mortality rates.…