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N ot a m e m b e r ? J o i n at a s so c iate d h a i rp rofe s sio n a ls .c o m 43 Notes 1. World Health Organization, Policy Statement on Data Sharing by the World Health Organization in the Context of Public Health Emergencies, (Geneva: W HO, 2016), www.who.int/ihr/procedures/SPG_data_ sharing.pdf. 2. Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, "Statistics and Research: Coronavirus Pandemic (COV ID-19)," Our World in Data, updated May 12, 2020, www.ourworldindata.org/coronavirus. 3. Tara Haelle, "Why It's Important to Push Back on 'Plandemic'— and how to do it," Forbes, May 8, 2020, www.forbes.com/sites/ tarahaelle/2020/05/08/why-its-important-to-push-back-on-plandemic- and-how-to-do-it. 4. Jon D. Lee, An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape our Perceptions of Disease (Boulder: Utah State University Press, 2014), 2–3. 5. P. M. Todd, "Heuristics for Decision and Choice," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001, www.sciencedirect. com/topics/neuroscience/heuristics. 6. Michael Shermer, "Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise," Scientific American 299, no. 6 (Dec 2008): 48, https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1208-48. 7. Kevin R. Foster and Hanna Kokko, "The Evolution of Superstitious and Superstition-Like Behavior," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276, no. 1654 (September 2008): 31–37, https://doi.org/10.1098/ rspb.2008.0981; Sophie Fyfe et al., "Apophenia, Theory of Mind, and Schizotypy: Perceiving Meaning and Intentionality in Randomness," Cortex 44, no. 10 (November–December 2008): 1316–25, https://doi. org/10.1016/j.cortex.2007.07.009. 8. Andrea Kitta, The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Louisville, CO: Utah State University Press, 2019), 5–7. At the beginning, I explained why it is almost impossible for human nature to accept holes in such life-changing narratives, but this may well be a valuable lesson for many communities, particularly those with healing and well-being as a vocation. The best we can do to shape those narratives into something that helps, rather than hindering the efforts being made by physicians, researchers, and the general public, is focus on developing rational coping mechanisms. It can help to understand how "noise" and subconscious patternicity hinder us from doing so, and the links in the Notes below provide many places to start. By developing rational responses, understanding the need to link these to localized narratives so that they can be better understood, finding ways to explain them to others, and strengthening our own resilience, we ensure our survival, both physical and mental. This may be the most valuable tool for healing when the time comes to emerge from self-isolation and return to healing our communities.

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