America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral - The Atlantic

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral - The Atlantic

Nine mistakes we make about the pandemic

From false dichotomies — save lives or save the economy? — to the ‘prevention paradox’ that breeds complacency when public-health measures work, many of us suffer from conceptual errors when it comes to coronavirus. The Atlantic lays out nine ways our intuition can steer us in the wrong direction and why they have snowballed to undermine the pandemic response in the United States.
The Atlantic | 19 min read