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Buckeye_Democrat

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3. Good article!
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 04:42 PM
Jul 2020

I'm indeed mostly blaming the lack of leadership, but this caught my attention too:



Researchers have studied the human tendency to discount preventable harms that arise from nature and to overreact to harms that arise from human action.


I'm almost certain that more Trump followers would wear masks if they thought the novel coronavirus was created in a lab by the Chinese to kill us. Fighting other people is about the only thing they understand. Nearly everything else is an "act of God" to be accepted.
A tough read intrepidity Jul 2020 #1
No, we aren't. Americans want the quick fix, the easy way out. Initech Jul 2020 #2
Good article! Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #3
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