"We humans are very bad at assessing risk. We’ll freak out over a spider, then drive 75 mph in the rain while texting. It’s just part of the charming package of being human. Me, you, everybody. That’s why we shouldn’t feel too bad if we fell for this whole Wuhan virus panic-a-thon. Hey, few of us are equipped to really understand even a fraction of what was being told to us, and all of us are naturally sympathetic to the very real personal tragedies of death. It takes not just intellectual but emotional energy to step back and put things in context, and, in an environment where fear is being fanned every minute, that energy can be hard to find." - Yard Sale of the Mind
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