Comments by "JBW" (@jbw6823) on "Black Swan Author Taleb Says People Should Not Go Back to Work Yet" video.

  1. Anyone notice a parallel between our response to Covid And Climate Change? Deny, deny. PANIC!! So typically human.
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  2.  @abyteuser6297  of course, but I hope you got the point; despite plenty of warnings, people dont react until directly threatened; its a well known cognitive behavioral effect. We can hear about Covid, but until its starts killing people around us, we think we're safe. Same thing with Climate Change. Read the references.
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  3.  @abyteuser6297  i cant tel if you are dense or soft trolling. I suspect both.
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  4. Jees ...no shit. Do NOT send people back til this fucking thing is way down.
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  5.  @abyteuser6297  my point is that we tend not to react until immediately threatened. This is well known in cognitive behavioral science. If it ain't a tiger immediately threatening us, we ignore. There are books on this. For example..https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
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  6.  @abyteuser6297  weve known about the threat of pandemics forever. Weve suffered them before. But a recent review found we were/are unprepared. The US was the most prepared but still was woefully inadequate. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/world-unprepared-for-pandemic-panel-warns/a-50471785
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  7.  @abyteuser6297  and as little as a month before the China thing hit, there was a major analysis ofvour inpreparedness see Csis.org.
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  8.  @abyteuser6297  Of course, we've been getting climate warnings for years also from many sources both public and private. We have been warned that there is a great probability that the shit will indeed hit the fan. There is also the possibility of abrupt change. In which case we'd be fucked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrupt_climate_change
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  9.  @abyteuser6297  I am not the first to notice the parallels. https://e360.yale.edu/features/coronavirus-holds-key-lessons-on-how-to-fight-climate-change
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  10. One wonders if Trumps initial slow reaction to Covid was partly this psychological effect.
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