We have a higher tolerance for risks that are boring and established — like traffic deaths — than risks that are new and dramatic.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) June 22, 2021
Angie is right. We seem to enjoy running around with our hair on fire about something that’s relatively low-risk to children, meanwhile we continue to do nothing about actual large and persistent risks.
In the end, the response to Covid will harm more people than Covid ever did.