We show that dealing with a crisis and the effect a crisis has on you is directly related to your attitude and perception and in evolutionary terms those of us who have greatest difficulty dealing with every day life due to high innate anxiety can be most effective in a crisis. We also discuss how 'experts' are often the wrong people to advise on any situation involving human behaviour and certainly a group of academics in Imperial have no clue how to manage a complicated multifaceted situation where the main killer is stress. We also touch on how the media are grossly distorting statistics by blindly reporting numbers completely unrelated to the real situation.