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While adopting a virtue ethic of being the sort of person who works against existential risk may result in ostracism IF you reveal it, if we assume that ostracism hurts efforts to reduce that risk then the rational thing for such a person to do would be to keep it to themselves.
But yes, it may happen that it would be rational to bring up such issues, get one (important?) person involved and motivated and simultaneously ostracize yourself from everyone else. Then you would need to be a person who cared more about others' wellbeing than what those people think of you. Which, IMHO, is pretty damn cool.
The larger problem is that people close to one - one's partner, parents, close friends - will all find out sooner or later; indeed attempting to hide it is probably even worse as it erodes trust.