FOGO Fear of Going Outside could spread through other protocols in a few interesting indirect ways.
Urban planning and zoning regulations could quietly embed FOGO friendly assumptions by prioritizing car centric infrastructure, reducing walkable public spaces, or deprioritizing the maintenance of parks and transit. When people have fewer safe, appealing reasons to go outside, the behavior reinforces itself without any explicit mention of avoidance.
Public health frameworks could normalize staying indoors as a default precautionary stance, not just during crises but as a general recommendation. If guidelines routinely frame outdoor exposure as a risk variable rather than a health benefit, people internalize that logic over time and carry it beyond the contexts where it was originally intended.
Smart home and building automation standards could accelerate this by optimizing environments so thoroughly for indoor comfort air filtration, temperature control, on demand delivery integration that going outside becomes less necessary and therefore less habitual. Convenience infrastructure essentially competes with the outdoors.
Insurance and liability frameworks could contribute by raising premiums or introducing fine print clauses tied to outdoor activities, creating financial disincentives that quietly reshape behavior without anyone explicitly encouraging avoidance.
Education and workplace policies centered around remote or hybrid models could institutionalize the idea that physical presence in shared outdoor or communal spaces is optional rather than valuable, gradually eroding the social norms that once pulled people outside for connection and routine.
Digital accessibility standards, if designed purely around maximizing what can be done remotely, could unintentionally close the gaps that once made going outside necessary banking, socializing, healthcare, commerce so that the outdoors becomes experiential rather than functional, easier to skip.
Each of these works not by promoting FOGO directly but by restructuring the conditions under which going outside feels necessary, safe, or worthwhile. @Fogo Official $FOGO #fogo