Covid -19 crises and American Exceptionalism

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@Lee_Shore

Common sense is not as common as its name implies.

If common sense is not common shouldn’t we be calling it something else? And at the risk of sounding like a wise ass if common sense is not common wouldn’t calling it something else be common sense?

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning expert on human behavior - COVID-19

It’s a 11 minute audio file, I prefer to read a transcript but one does not seem available. I did end up listening to the whole thing. Even as the scale of the coronavirus outbreak was becoming apparent, spring breakers flooded the beaches of Florida and New Yorkers continued to congregate in parks. Despite the warnings of politicians and health-care professionals, many people failed to treat the coronavirus pandemic as a serious threat. Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning expert on human…