It seems like a pandemic should be the EASIEST time for people to realize that they should care about others and their wellbeing, but nope, I still can't explain to people around me why they should care about other humans...
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Unsure if the flippant "lol it's just a flu that kills old geezers" attitude is because younger people in the US hate their older family members / boomers, or their grandparents have already passed away...I am just lucky to still have a really sweet grandmother who I care about?
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I keep seeing "people don't care" and... I don't buy it. People are asking "should I change my own behavior?" and motivated-reasoningly concluding "no" without it ever occurring to them that their behavior would spiken the curve and thus lead to more old people dying.
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I think they're just thinking "X% of old people are going to die" as if it's a sunk cost. And then the emotional disconnect is this:https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1238160328493395968 …
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Is changing that motivated reasoning a matter of lack of immediately visible effects, then? I will say that the college students I've overheard in the past week do seem remarkably apathetic about the elderly and ill in particular, not just the effects of their own behavior
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But I know I also shouldn't overgeneralize based on anecdotes and the most vocally complaining young people around. Quiet anxiety is a mode of response I can't see so easily
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