Fascinating to see a category of people who’ve sort of come alive with Covid, like it’s the kind of challenge they were born for
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Isn't it likely that there are "pandemic programs" already in the human psyche, from both evolution and the fear of germs?
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This seems more general acute crisis response personality type. I doubt there’s been enough time for evolutionary responses to pandemics to evolve since they’re a feature of dense urban settlement and trade.
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Given the massive survival advantages to people with pandemic programs (we've had villages for a long time), I'd say otherwise.
Said another way, "social distancing" is a pretty simple strategy to encode and evolve.
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I was thinking about this, but it's like the difference between wolves and domestic dogs. Which prospers depends on the selection pressures.
And note that wolves are tribal more than anti-social.

