As cases of COVID-19, increase across Europe, and the rest of the world, so too does anxiety, fear and stress. For many of us it is the psychological impact of the virus, rather than the virus itself, that is causing us the most pain. Our brain's primary way of dealing with threat is the flight-fight-freeze response. This system mobilises our body quickly to keep us safe from danger. A perfect solution to the show term, intense threats that we were exposed to as hunter-gatherers. A considerably less than perfect solution for the threat posed by some of the slower moving, uncertain, and longer term threats that viruses such as COVID19 pose.