No specific incident in mind, but I’m always just completely shocked by just how very, very terrible people are at managing and assessing risk. Just shockingly bad. Is this related to our evolutionary history? Poor education? Both? More than these factors?

I don’t know. No one is completely rational and never will be, but very often I see people attempting to be “completely safe” and actually increasing their level of risk substantially. It’s puzzling. And sometimes infuriating.

As yet, however, I have not figured out any common pattern other than people are just completely terrible at this in nearly every way that is possible to be bad at something. It really was apparent during Covid, of course, but this lack of ability to assess and manage risk is just ubiquitous. It seems to be getting worse, too, though perhaps that is just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.