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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by brootstrap on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:21AM (#22664333)
This is happening across the pond as well. My wife's best friend was texting her saying she was going on a first date with a dude. She was asking for date ideas , in corona virus season. We are just like, paige shut the fuck up. This was 7 days ago. Just yesterday she texts my wife again saying she went to the mall with her friend. She says wow all the stores are mostly closed and the fitting rooms for trying clothes are not open...

this person is a fucking doctor. A DOCTOR. and she cant comprehend the severity of the situation.

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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by growlist on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:39AM (#22664510)
I think a lot of people - including me to an extent - are about to come crashing into the real world at 1000 mph. The difference is that I've suspected this was in the post for a long time. It only takes a few hours or less on a plane from almost any part of the world to reach somewhere that demonstrates clearly how utterly detached from reality advanced nations have become.
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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by badpun on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:29AM (#22665013)
If the virus hits hard some poor country, we'll be able to compare and verify if the advanced countries are detached from reality, or is it really just baseline human selfishness.
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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by prox on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:49AM (#22664603)
Many people can’t imagine if they are not directly effected by something. It is not necessarily they are not intelligent in certain domains, but they have trouble seeing beyond the familiar.

All this is explained in Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb, everyone should read it! Please do it now.

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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by bryanrasmussen on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:51AM (#22664614)
someone I know in Italy, Lombardy, decided one month ago to go on a ski vacation.

It was ok though, because they were going with a scientist and a doctor so they must know what they are doing!

When they got back from the vacation they spent a week going out to the park when they could with the kids.

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