You can take out the electricity to Spain, but there is a certain spirit that does not leave with hot water: when it was learned that the blackout that yesterday paralyzed the country He was going for long, people soon went out to wait quietly, beer in hand, to the crisis passed. A great, almost summery climate, and a Almost total paralysis of millions of workers throughout the country he did the rest.
The first steps. When the electric current disappeared and a couple of messages from the still resistant Internet connection made it clear that we were facing A phenomenon, at least, at the national levelmany we go out. The initial bewilderment when seeing traffic lights that did not work shake hands with some carefree attitude of the neighbors. When shops began to close and Chinese bazaars to exhaust water and toilet paper reserves, people asked: now what?
The people on the street. A quick look at social networks allows us to verify that Pedro Sánchez’s words At night they were not disenchanted: the country had taken the blackout in an exemplary way, without accidents or disturbances. Partly because we were very present The pandemic experience And the looting of shops, partly because it was too good time. But mid -morning People were already singing and dancing.
The night confuses us. As the day progressed, as reflected in networks, Fun samples increased On the street, possibly because of the conviction that the causes of the blackout were more or less controlled, and that unlike the precautions that had to be taken during the pandemic, we could not do anything to soften the impact. The dances And the collective listening of the radio stations They gave way to bottles already Frequent bars They had to serve dark drinks. The electric current returned not too late In most citiesso people were able to recover the usual rhythm of Mondays quickly.
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What does science say. Just a couple of months ago, Chile lived a situation much more alarmingwith an equally extended blackout, but generating much greater chaos. Already then science Questions were asked About our behavior against unexpected events, and social behavior patterns. In emergency situations, people are concluded, people tend to group and look for a company, which reduces anxiety and fear. This trend does not only provide mood welfare: it also facilitates cooperative and civilized responses, especially if the community is cohesive and trusts the environment.
We were already taught. Other analysis of the human behavior in emergency situations They tell us that these types of responses depend in part of whether people have lived before similar situations, and it is clear that it has been: Pandemia educated us about How to react to emergency situationsbut the behavior of the Spaniards before the blackout has remembered, above all, the revelry expressions that we could experience and express when the confinement period was raised. It is clear that we always stay with the good.
Tranquility is what is sought. If the population acted so it was because they knew that the awkward situation was not a serious threat to security or the short -term energy supply. The control context and the authorities’ response allowed disconnection to be lived as a collective anecdote and not as a deep crisis. Analog leisure is always within our reach, but we usually resort to them only when technology fails exceptionally: nothing prevents, in normal circumstances, we disconnect voluntarily, let’s go out and enjoy the company or rest, without the need to wait for a new blackout.
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