what would i do?

At the very beginning of this novel Irene Nemirovsky writes how people are in denial about the air raid/ war, rather than scared. I guess It is because they are scared, that they are in denial. page 2 "Im staying in bed." and "I am not scared" are both examples of their denial. If i was in their situation Im not really sure how my reaction to such news would be. I do know how ever that i would not say that i wasn't scared and i would most definitely not be able to sleep and go back to bed though. I just don't understand how people could act so calmly about such thing in such a time and just try to sleep it off. If the chapter was written about how i was acting it would probably mention something like how people were acting childish and crying, with no hope.