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Feels like I’m missing an important angle on virus. Sense of a major blindspot. Hmm. Public health, economy, institutional response, secular behavior shifts... what angle are we missing? Working out extra degrees of impact on above angles doesn’t seem to illuminate blindspot.
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If I were I'd be looking at how plagues predict shifts in moral foundations, to emphasize the disgust dimension and strengthen conservative biases. Confirmation/selection biases also emerge, e.g. "my aunt drank forsythia and lived, my uncle didn't and died".
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Also, there is an interesting fatalistic/nihilistic element of "this is an Act of God, no point trying to fight it" which may emerge from a fundamentally depressive life position – I suspect many people are actually okay with large numbers of people dying, including themselves.
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