> We’re well into the social shaming stage of the pandemic. It doesn’t seem to matter how much evidence we have. People won’t adopt the simplest measures to protect themselves or anyone else.
That one made me double take. Is it a commonly held view that COVID is "still happening"? In my area of the world (and in other Western areas, from talking to friends), it's seen as over basically since we got our two jabs. Based on this quote and other articles by the author (complaining about children coughing on each other or adults not wearing masks), I assumed this article was 1-2 years old.
Regardles,
> A disturbingly large portion of the public seems totally unmoved by stories of children dying in hospitals.
If we look at the world around us, we see preventable awfulness daily. Everyone's aware that aggressive driving and speeding increase the chances of car accidents resulting in injury or death, yet most people seem to do at least one daily. Most people are aware that their clothes, watch, computer, iPhone, kettle, etc are made overseas often in awful conditions, yet they continue to shop.
Most people are aware after 30 years of marketing that you can feed a child in Africa for a very small amount of money per month (yes, you can afford it), yet they elect not to.
What the author calls normalcy bias, I wonder if this is simply an in-built protection to stop us breaking down on a daily basis. Either way, I'm unsure why the author is at all surprised.
That one made me double take. Is it a commonly held view that COVID is "still happening"? In my area of the world (and in other Western areas, from talking to friends), it's seen as over basically since we got our two jabs. Based on this quote and other articles by the author (complaining about children coughing on each other or adults not wearing masks), I assumed this article was 1-2 years old.
Regardles,
> A disturbingly large portion of the public seems totally unmoved by stories of children dying in hospitals.
If we look at the world around us, we see preventable awfulness daily. Everyone's aware that aggressive driving and speeding increase the chances of car accidents resulting in injury or death, yet most people seem to do at least one daily. Most people are aware that their clothes, watch, computer, iPhone, kettle, etc are made overseas often in awful conditions, yet they continue to shop.
Most people are aware after 30 years of marketing that you can feed a child in Africa for a very small amount of money per month (yes, you can afford it), yet they elect not to.
What the author calls normalcy bias, I wonder if this is simply an in-built protection to stop us breaking down on a daily basis. Either way, I'm unsure why the author is at all surprised.