There are two types of panic. There’s ordinary, everyday panic, and then there’s moral panic.
The first is the type that happens when you look out the window of your plane while flying at 30,000 feet and notice the wing has fallen off.
With this type of panic you either quickly recover once the danger has passed, or you face a genuine risk of death. If the wing of your plane has fallen off, it’s likely to be the latter.
The other type of panic, moral panic, is a socio-political phenomenon. It’s defined as a contagious fear that some hazard threatens social wellbeing.
