I Learned From The Happening That ...

1. Even if 100,000 people have been seen walking backwards, then immediately going crazy and killing themselves .... It's best to state blankly at people who begin walking backwards, and continue to politely call their name, as in "Mrs. Jones, um Mrs. Jones ..."
2. Similarly, it's perfectly ok to stand on the porch next to your dead friend, who had just received a point blank shotgun blast to his chest from an angry stranger inside the house, and talk and act upset among yourselves.
3 . If you have sex while an unknown contagion wreaks havoc on America, you'll finally conceive!
4. Most people will remain chill and have no panic attacks, or freak out, when huge numbers of people commit suicide in hours. Newscasters report the event as a scientific anomaly.
5. Civil air raid sirens, military, police, emergency broadcast systems, CDC ... all have no use or need when an invisible force causes mass bizarre suicide.