• hansolo@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    Yeah, but so can alcohol, smoking, microplastics, and red meat. Heart disease is back to being the #1 killer of Americans, and humans still prioritize fear over serial killers and Bird Flu rather than heart disease and car accidents.

    Humans are notoriously bad at assessing risk. It’s a lot of work to overcome our cognitive biases.

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      12 days ago

      You really don’t see the difference between vices that a person chooses to ingest, and people spreading a potentially deadly/debilitating virus to a person unwittingly?

      Really?