8 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Commentary... Emotional survival tools for a pandemic By Mitchell Luftig Columnist According to Dr. Rick Hanson, our minds are like velcro for negative experi- ences and teflon for positive experiences. This started with our ancestors9 whose survival depended upon pay- ing close attention to the bad things going on around them (was that the snarl of a saber tooth tiger?), which created a