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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by sdkaufman on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:34AM (#22581786)
This is classic normalcy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

People will grasp at any excuse to convince themselves "it'll be fine, it won't happen to me". The fact it started in China made it easy - the Chinese government must be overreacting because it's authoritarian, it's halfway across the world, my government must have gotten this figured out, my health care system must be better than China's, etc etc. And of course the classic "it's just a flu".

It's sad that so many will suffer and die because of this.

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