I need to know if anyone else is experiencing great anxiety or panic attacks lately?

I want to if anyone is having anxiety or panic attacks because around here everyone is I mean everyone I know is now having them that is so strange cause half of them never had any before. I started having them few months ago and I never had one in my life before now they come nonstop its likewise with everyone around here. It makes me think someone is going on or is going to happen. What ya think?